Wendy's Excellent Adventure

When Zeke was in his room getting dressed this morning, he pulled out the old "all about me" poster than Jason and I made for a d...

Let me start by saying that I think that bitching about Mondays, or doing something like responding to a "how are you" with so...

At first glance, I thought she was drinking out of a wine glass. I was in the elevator at work at the end of the day, sharing a ride down ...

"Mama, are you still the 20 year old surfer chick named Tammy?" Josie grinned up at me, a cheerful little Easter egg in her p...

I get a lot of phone calls from my mother while she's in various business class lounges in airports around the world. The other day it w...

Growing up the way I did, my family and I were immersed in other cultures. We experienced non-American holidays. We traveled to far away pla...

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...