Wendy's Excellent Adventure

Inevitably, I had another birthday last week. Though I am long past the age when I get excited about birthdays, it was a lovely day, full ...

Occasionally, it gets really cold in Colorado. This may seem like a statement by Captain Obvious, but the weather in Denver is actually pr...

Being a parent, especially a single parent, is hard. And I don't really mean the day-to-day part of it. That can be hectic, and often ...

For the second year in a row, the feast-or-famine nature of my holiday custody arrangement - having the kids for a week over Thanksgiving bu...

A few weeks ago, I went out on a date with a guy who has a form of Superior Autobiographical Memory . He has the ability to remember everyth...

Even though Jane left Charlottesville before I left Colorado, we ended up meeting at Penn Station at the same time. Her train kept getting d...

The past week and a half - and really, the months leading up to this past week and a half - have been exhausting. I grew up in a household i...

So that happened. And it sucks on so many levels. The uptick in racist/misogynistic/xenophobic attacks made in the president-elect's n...

Last night I was lying in bed watching President Obama's speech in Philadelphia - his last campaign speech of the election cycle. As ev...

My dear sweet Ezekiel, I realized today, when thinking about you turning nine years old, that we have essentially reached the halfway poin...

Nine years ago tonight, I was walking the halls of Kapi'olani Medical Center , trying to power my way through what would end up a 25 hou...

It's been a long time since I've written about depression, or about being someone with a diagnosis of depression.  When it's bee...

My darling, sweet, crazy Josephine, My Josie, Josie-jo, JoJo, JoJo-Bean. Little Monkey. Sweet Pea. Guuuurl. Today you are seven yea...

I was out on Saturday, driving around, running errands, when I came over a rise and had this magnificent view of the Rockies. It was a clear...