Wendy's Excellent Adventure

The turnoff from the Halfmoon trail to Mt. Massive is written in tiny letters with a Sharpie. This cracked me up. I suppose it was inevitabl...

 The adolescence is becoming conspicuous.  I look at my children and they do not look like little kids anymore. Josie, who will be 11 in thr...

  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...