Had some yard work done that required cutting concrete. My gardener gave me a quote of $150 to do the job. I accepted his bid as fair and equitable, and we agreed he’d do the work last Sunday. He arrived promptly at 8:30 Sunday morning and began cutting our concrete patio. He used a small … Continue reading The TRUTH about Immigrants
How to build better relationships with partners, kids, friends and colleagues... The first year of my marriage didn’t go according to plan. The creative, smart, capable man I thought I married appeared to be a jobless, lazy, self-absorbed brat. I’d waited 37 years to marry, ten years behind almost everyone I knew. I’d waited to … Continue reading 4 Steps to Better Relationships
Australia killed social media today for under 18. YEA AUZZIES! My almost 24 yr old daughter came downstairs Saturday morning giggling with glee. She told my husband and I she was ‘so excited!’ Something ‘great’ had happened. She was in a car accident 1.5 yrs ago that is resulting in a lawsuit, and I thought … Continue reading Parenting Social Media
For anyone experiencing grief from loss... The fetus inside me, my potential daughter, was diagnosed XXX from a tissue sample taken during an amniocentesis my 14th week of pregnancy. We’d named her Sierra, since she made it past the first trimester, after losing two of the triplets in utero the first month. I’d had three … Continue reading Reaching Acceptance
Atheists are worse than terrorists in USA… I was finishing the morning dishes when I saw the strobe of police lights out my kitchen window as several cop cars pulled up to a house across the street from ours. I picked up my 19-month-old son out of the highchair, held him against my ballooning belly, and hauled … Continue reading Atheist in Christian America
We play GOD when we give birth. With great power comes great responsibility… There is a child in my daughter’s preschool that everyone dislikes. She hits, pushes, slaps, and throws a fit every time she doesn’t get her way. All the teachers at the preschool dread having this wild child in their class. Her mom … Continue reading The Problem with Today’s Parents
I’m scared out of my mind, though I suppose I shouldn’t be. Cancer is not unexpected. I’ve been waiting for the diagnosis for years. Still, when I felt the tenderness in my breast a month ago I passed it off as a pulled muscle from weightlifting. I tried to ignore it last week too, told … Continue reading Looking for Cancer
My father is a fervent Republican. My mother was a Democrat. I once saw him put his fist through the maple cabinet an inch from my mother’s head because her vote was going to cancel his in the second Reagan election. Though he never hit her, connected anyway, he often shouted, slammed things, threw things, … Continue reading Believing is NOT Thinking
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4DIaZWItxWERRbZDNjZBz6?si=8fc15218e7cc4ebc My sister is dead, I told the bank manager. She isn’t dead. She lives in Washington with her husband, having recently moved from L.A., where we were both born and raised. The bank manager expressed his condolences. He accepted the paperwork from our lawyer to remove my sister's name from our Trust as the … Continue reading LOVE Defined
