Image credit: Photo by lfaisco on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons As I was brushing my hair recently, I noticed a few strands of gray. My mother's hair seemed to turn white nearly overnight in her late forties. She said it was the grief of losing two close family members within less than a year [...]
Posts under ‘Dad’
Sorry!
Image credit: Photo byboxchain on Flickr(It's codie graffiti!) I tend to apologize for things. A lot. If things are going less than perfectly, if I'm less than perfect, it's hard for me to go 15 seconds without "I'm so sorry" slipping out. If you've met me in real life, you've almost certainly heard me apologize [...]
Happy Loving Day
Photo credit:by Fazy on Flickrwith thanks to BizyLizyfor finding it first Today is Loving Day. Forty one years ago today, in the case of Loving v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court passed down a unanimous decision legalizing interracial marriage. A little over thirty years after that decision, a black man and a white woman who [...]
Yoga Lessons
Three years ago, I walked into my first yoga class looking for help and relief. I have had back pain since I was a teenager, probably too many years of carrying too many books in a bag fashionably slung over one shoulder. Or maybe just too many years of stoically insisting on carrying loads that [...]
I’m Not Going to Become an Alcoholic After All
When I was maybe six years old, I asked my dad for a taste of his beer. He drank it all the time, and I was curious. He let me have a little and even seemed pleased with me. It was the most awful thing I had ever tasted. I couldn't understand why anyone drank [...]
An Open Letter to my Father
Dear Dad, I remember one night when I was maybe ten. It was a weekend or a holiday, so there was no reason to be up early the next morning, and I suspect I couldn't sleep. I was standing in the living room in my nightgown, and instead of sending me off to bed, you [...]
Haiku Time
My friend Willowgreen has inspired me tonight: Cold winter-night toesThe cat curled up on a chairChristmas tree glowing Unable to writeA letter to my fatherI'm going to bed
An Open Letter to my Mother
Dear Mom, If you are reading this, you have somehow found yourself at my blog. I always knew there was the potential for you to end up here, but I figured the odds were against it, and the work I've been doing is important enough that it seemed worth that small risk. Now that you [...]
Aphra Behn Interviews Me: Part 1
Aphra Behn has very kindly indulged my wish to be interviewed (again). I already participated in an interview with Jen of Stay-At-Home Motherdom, but it was such fun, I couldn't resist doing it again. As with that interview, I am going to turn this one into five full days of blog posts. Why kill the [...]
Destination Unknown
Mark and I took the kids to the park today. We sat in the shade watching them as they ran through the sunlit sand, climbed wobbly chain ladders and whizzed down slides. It was a Sunday, and as children, both Mark and I would have spent the day in church: dressed in uncomfortable clothes, sitting [...]
