Image credit: Photo by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons "I hate that you don't have a blog," said a woman about to undergo heart surgery, as she gazed sincerely up at her boyfriend, "I hate that I don't know what you're thinking." Mark and I burst into raucous laughter and had [...]
Posts under ‘Kelly’
Measuring Love
Image credit: Photo by tripp-e on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons My daughter Janie ran up to me today, curls bouncing and eyes sparkling, and exclaimed enthusiastically, "Mama, I love you the most of anyone!" Then she thought for a moment and (clearly not wanting to leave her other loved ones out of the picture) [...]
Opening Up
Image credit: Photo by casch52 on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons This week I plan to tell one of my best and oldest friends about my husband's addiction after nearly six years of silence around it. I've wanted to let her in to this part of my life, because keeping her out -- keeping anyone [...]
Sisterhood Haikus
My dear friend Kelly is the sister of my heart, my chosen family. We go out shopping, try a gaudy sweater dress just to laugh at it. Bright, flashy, sparkly, we expect pure tackiness but she looks stunning. The joke is on us: That strange, laughable dress proves everything's her style. Sisterhood Award inspired Kelly [...]
Burn, Baby, Burn
Image credit: Photo by alecani on Flickr Licensed under Creative Commons When Austen was a baby, a friend of my husband's gave him a stuffed camel, which she brought for him all the way from Israel. However, Austen never showed much interest in toys without wheels or numbers. The sole exception was a stuffed rabbit [...]
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast: A Codependent’s Fairy Tale
My daughter recently received a Disney princess book as a gift from my friend Kelly, and it is her absolute favorite book in the world right now. Now I know that as a feminist, I should be offended at the Disney princesses. And as an ultra-liberal with a deep discomfort with and distrust in the [...]
8 More Things
Well, now that, in my codependent craziness, I've made all of you feel good and guilty for not commenting (BTW, Danielle, Moonmaid, by instantly reassuring me that you still love me, you've passed my codie test) and now that I have assuaged my own codie guilt for not commenting on your blogs, I'm ready to [...]
