Wendy's Excellent Adventure

I often miss my family. I had what felt to me like an idyllic childhood.  Many people I know give me a confused look at the idea of a life...

Zeke had his kindergarten "continuation" ceremony.  It's the term the school uses instead of "graduation," becau...

I woke up this morning feeling inexplicably happy.  "Inexplicably" not because my life sucks and I have nothing to be happy about,...

Occasionally, the children's interactions with each other sound like this: "ZEKE! Give it back!" "You weren't usi...

A friend of mine who recently went through a divorce told me that when she was first separated, her therapist told her she needed to...

Sometimes I'll speak to groups of people (mostly women) about fitness, and I always start off by asking questions.  I usually bypass...

The worst times are when they're tired and constantly bickering, or, for some reason, on weekday mornings, right when I announce that it...

I read Catch-22 on a glorious boondoggle of a high school senior trip to Mahabalipuram , India, on the southern east coast near Chennai.  ...

When I got home today, J informed me that his phone had been lighting up with text messages and calls from various people who have read my r...

In response to my dream post , a friend of mine with whom I went to school in Israel offered the following interpretation: The first ...

I've noticed people talking or writing lately about their recurring dreams, which is something that has always fascinated me.  There...

Ever since J and I made the decision to split up (and indeed, well before then, when I knew I wanted it to happen), there have been two thin...

An interesting - and wonderful - thing about talking (or writing) about things that are difficult and that people don't often open up ab...

I know a lot of people who are very much into always being present and in the moment, and to not dwell on the past or the future.  To just b...

As is typical of a Denver spring, on Saturday it was 70 degrees and lovely, if increasingly overcast in the afternoon.  J was doing some sid...

Dear Mom, Last Sunday when Dad was driving me to the airport after my reunion, we were talking about our family and he said, "you...

Yesterday Zeke came with me and kept me company while I did my hunting and gathering at the grocery store.  I forget how the topic came up, ...

The other day my coworker and I were on a bus taking us from our resort to get some dinner in downtown Disney* (a truly vile place), and, as...

This past year of my marriage has been so hard.* When J and I first got together, he was so sweet and adoring towards me, almost exaggera...

It's a familiar feeling at this point.  The Sunday morning exhaustion mixed with a sense of longing and wistfulness, plus a hair of a ...