Wendy's Excellent Adventure

It's threatening to show itself... My sweet daughter has had a rough year. She's been dealing with some really heavy shit that has b...

 Greg and I were noodling about something fun to do this past weekend. He called me and asked, "do you think you would be able to handl...

 From an intellectual, left-brained perspective, I was and am fully cognizant of the road ahead of me, and prepared to walk it. From emotion...

Day one you're powering through on adrenaline and heavy drugs. There's still a lot of swelling and numbness that is keeping your bod...

The surgery went perfectly. The surgeon talked to Mom while I was still in the recovery room and told her that there was a little more damag...

It was extremely distressing to discover that not only had my little black dress not made it into my bag - though I distinctly remembered ge...

For our last night in Mexico - New Year's Eve - I did my research.  Greg had initially suggested that we drive from Guanajuato City to ...

It's only early December, so it feels a tad early to start with all the year-end retrospectives, but everyone loves a good list. My favo...

Saturday afternoon. The family is sitting on the sofa watching football. Susan and Wendy are folding laundry. Me: What should we do for dinn...

 My darling Zeke, This past Sunday was your 14th birthday. You were with your dad, but you and I had planned to go shopping for a new skateb...

 A friend of mine recently turned me on to Ken Burns's documentary series about the national parks  (it's great). The first episode ...

 My dearest darling Josephine, This morning I woke up and found that you had crawled into bed with me during the night. I snuggled up close ...