Wendy's Excellent Adventure

Later, as we stood in the hallway with no adults to greet us, in a house that seemed to be devoid of furniture - except for a hair dryer in ...

I don't think I realized initially how splitting child custody would result in an extraordinary feeling of my life being so compartmenta...

Josie is long and very thin, and always has been.  Even as a baby, she never had typical baby chub, never had the fat rolls on her neck or l...

It's not the fake drinking I mind so much as the fake food.  At least with the fake drinking, when we have to change the pretend diapers...

One of the things about having gone through a divorce and then embarking on efforts to date is that it forces you to figure out what went wr...

It was the night I learned what it meant for the moon to be in "perigee" - the point at which it's closest to the Earth in its...

There's something really cool about skiing on opening day.  I'd never done it before, but the stars aligned and a flex day coincided...

I was really worried that the noise was going to prompt the neighbors to call the police. It was about 3 in the morning and we were outsid...

Even when it's technically over, there are always bits and pieces to finish up.  Schedules to finalize, someone else's stuff to clea...

I was reading a book in which the protagonist found self-awareness (and self-forgiveness and really, his ultimate self) through, among other...

Dear Zekey, Yesterday you turned eight years old.  You were with your dad this weekend, so I didn't get to wake you up with hugs and k...

I feel like I spend a lot of time exposing myself to strangers. Well, not a *lot* of time, I guess.  Certainly not in proportion to my tim...

A friend and I were recently talking about friendships and love affairs, and whether you can ever truly know someone.  Oftentimes, when you ...

Stress and depression and physical malaise are like a self-fulfilling prophesy.  You feel down and you lose motivation to do anything so you...

From the old pictures, I can see that he was a handsome young man.  Tall, clear-eyed, with a kind face.  A good athlete, particularly adept ...

These days, I have a feeling of momentum. For a few years, at least, it seems like it's been one trauma or stressor after another, whe...

The irony of moving around from country to country as a kid is that it left me feeling like I had great experiences in various locations, bu...

One of the things that kind of cracks me up about Colorado is that there is no gradual change of seasons.  It changes in a day, and that...

I've been writing quite a bit about this stuff, but it's on my mind, because suddenly I'm communicating with a bunch of guys and...

It started around the middle of the afternoon on Friday: sore throat, swollen and tender lymph nodes in my neck, fever-chill.  I figured it ...