Wendy's Excellent Adventure

I've rarely weighed in on politics here - other people write about it far better than I could, plus arguing about politics on the intern...

I started writing this blog ten years ago as a way to keep family and friends apprised of my impending move to Hawaii.  It was originally co...

Having visited and lived in Third World countries growing up - particularly India - I'm well cognizant of how extravagantly I hit the ja...

Dear Emma, Today is your nineteenth birthday.  It's been over a year and a half since you left us , though it feels like a million yea...

I read Tina Fey's book Bossypants a few years ago, and one of the things that really struck me about it was how she bases her philosoph...

Since getting home from work yesterday, and with slight detours to make the kids dinner, put them to bed, and then get them up and off to sc...

Here's something I never thought I would do:  today I posted, on a Facebook page, mirror selfies of myself in my underwear. The page...

"Maybe you don't really want to be with someone." I was talking to a friend of mine about my recent dating foibles, and this...

After all of the sadness and gloom, let's talk about something happy, shall we? My house is a shit show. Two Czech guys named Mi...

So many cards were stacked against her. Depression ran in her family, and it affected her.  While she was bubbly and funny and interesting...

I think my daughter is better at this shit than I am. The other night I was in the bathroom with her while she took a shower.  She and I w...

The process feels so familiar that it's almost seamless, like stepping back into a room that I only just left a few minutes before.  I w...

Bad luck, I guess. It floats around. It's got to land on somebody. It was my turn, that's all. I was in the path of the tornado. I ...

My dad was always big on photographing the family - my parents have dozens of photo albums at their house, chronicling their (and our) ...

We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die . The storybooks are bullshit . Now I want you to c...

After a short period of wallowing, I have jumped back into the world of online dating.  I have a number of single friends who do it but hate...

Yesterday I got a text message from the kids' dad, telling me that they had been on their way to the mountains to ski, but that in the b...

In college, my general rule of thumb when it came to alcohol consumption was that I had about a four to five hour window - if I started dr...