On Jan. 15, we’d been home from Belize for 15 days. I’d been home from Nicaragua for two. That evening we booked two flights to Amman,…
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Three years and four months ago, I was a janitor, a night web content producer and an adjunct. And I raised a litter of puppies…
I won’t win any dog-mom-of-the-year awards, that’s for certain. She had surgery two months ago. A benign cyst had grown on her rump for five…
The scene: It was my September birthday weekend, also a holiday (Labor Day), and the first weekend in six months that we were alone. We…
When she didn’t answer my obligatory knock on the side door, I let myself in: “We’re here! Hello!!!” Dogs barked, three of them – the…
It feels as though I’ve been in an alternate reality. A reality in which not much is about me, And everything revolves around extensions of…
If I’m calling you friend, it means we’ve been through a lot of life together. You’ve probably watched me move across the country a couple…
I don’t like waving the “Hey, look how busy I am!” flag. And I won’t make the correlation between busy-ness and productivity. Example: right now…
I’m 10 years removed from the day I earned my bachelor’s degree and eight years from my master’s. I just finished my third year teaching…
Sometimes my projects take me places and in this case, it was my last morning in Roatan, Honduras. She asked: Would you rather go for…