Wendy's Excellent Adventure

  5:00 a.m. - I am up before my alarm, which is unusual and surprising. I like my sleep, plus I was up last night later than normal. Met a ...

"Mom, me and Zeke are switching rooms." I had just walked home from being out for a couple of hours to meet a friend for a drink...

My dear Emma, Happy birthday. You would have been twenty-three years old today. I've been thinking about you so much lately. I...

If there is a casualty of this COVID-stay-at-home-so-you-don't-die dealio, it will be my sense of time. Lisa wrote about this, and I ge...

Because I do my assignments, I was determined to know the speech, off-book. I practiced in front of Josie and Zeke, both of whom applauded...

It takes a lot to accept that a fundamental decision in your life was a bad one. It's hard to admit it, that your judgment was so off. ...

I've been thinking for a while about what I'm going to do with this blog. I've been writing it for 13 1/2 years. It's been a...

My wonderful, colorful, hilarious, delightful Josephine, Today you are 10 years old. I'm excited to be writing this birthday post for ...

It has been five years . Five years is a milestone. It feels like a significant amount of time, when memory of an event, or a person, s...

Yesterday I was sitting in my office revising a policy document when I blinked and suddenly felt like there was a boulder in my eye. It wa...

My dearest Emma, You would have been 22 years old today. Everything is making me cry. Zeke was Charlie in his class's production o...

Late last year my Virginia girlies and I made a plan to have a mini-reunion girls' weekend in Florida. It's the 50th birthday year f...