Wendy's Excellent Adventure

My dearest Josephine, This past Thursday, when I was driving you and Zeke to school, we were getting close to the carpool drop-off lane an...

At first, a thing you did becomes a thing you did again. And then it becomes a thing you do. It's a Thing. For the first anniversary o...

Back in the spring, I made an impromptu trip to Virginia to spend Passover with my parents. The kids were with their dad and I was feeling l...

I miss pictures. Ya know? Real pictures. The ones that are printed out on shiny photo paper, that have pin-holes in the corners from being...

The sun was shining and the air felt pleasantly warm, but not too hot, as I walked across the street and into the YMCA to pick up the kids. ...

Hi. It's been awhile, I know. And I'm not sure why. Normally, I feel like I have things I want to write about - things I'm t...

Dear Emma, Today is your twentieth birthday. This one is hitting me hard. The big roundness of that number.  I know that twenty-one is t...

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 ...