Wendy's Excellent Adventure

I've written before about my love of bluegrass  and how, at the age of 27, my particular love of the banjo spurred me to ask for one whe...

Sometimes when I think I'm going through something rough, I think about some of the awful things that other people have endured, and tha...

My dearest Zekey-beans. Today you are eleven years old. Eleven is a weird age. There isn't the novelty of being in double digits, b...

Josephine, my sweet love. My delightfully funny, beautiful darling girl. Today you are nine years old. You are with your dad this week, ...

Dear Emma, It has been four years since you left us. Even though in other areas of my life, four years feels like a million, with you it...

I woke up to the sound of someone walking into the house. I reached out to look at my phone - it was 1:15 in the morning. I was startled b...

Zeke recently asked me, "Mom, is it OK if I sleep by myself?" My children have been crawling into my bed since they were babies....

A little bit of background: Yesterday it was chilly and rainy in Denver, so I worked out and then spent the rest of the day lounging around ...

Dearest Emma, Today is your birthday. You would have been twenty-one years old. Generally, I do not cry anymore every time I think about...

I live in a 122 year old house that I adore, but which is undeniably a work in progress. She needed new floors . New configuration. New ba...

With every reunion, I take away different things. I wasn't in touch with my India peeps for a really long time. Like, for twenty years...

As you all know, Josie has always been full of sass. She lives her life as if she's on stage, hamming it up for any audience, real or im...

It's kind of a running joke between my mother and me - except one that isn't all that funny - that I am the world's worst shoppe...

This sounds like such a cliché, but I can’t even deal with how much access my kids have to information that they might not be ready for. ...

My children are once again going through a time of turbulence. Once again through no fault or choice of their own. Once again caused by the ...