You know that feeling when you’ve just had the most delicious slice of your grandma’s chocolate fudge cake and you really want to have another piece but you don’t think you should because, well, gluttony is the first deadly sin? To me, that’s what an empty nest feels like. My years as an active mom [...]
Six years after we launched Molly B and Me with a small garden that only grew turnips and an inventive (though honestly somewhat dubious) recipe for potato cookies, we are moving on. Molly B wants her name back for her own kind of writing and, as her lifelong fan (and mother), the least I can [...]
Midway through our road trip to Minneapolis yesterday, I commandeered the XM radio and we all enjoyed a little "Breakfast with Broadway". By 10 a.m., a song came on and I knew we had our theme for the day The best of times is now. As for tomorrow, Well, who knows? Who knows? Who knows? [...]
I found a basket of memories yesterday, and I sat on the closet floor and enjoyed them for a while. Time stood still, and then pleasantly rolled backwards as I sifted through sports buttons from all those frantic years of active parenting. All four of my kids played on teams with varying degrees of talent [...]
Sometimes, you can hear the pictures you take. I look at this picture I took two years ago of my son Charlie and I can still hear the evening's happy clamor -- the clink of ice cubes against festive margarita glasses, the Saturday post-show chatter, the scrape of shared plates across the restaurant table. "Anyone [...]