Wendy's Excellent Adventure

When I got to work this morning, I had gotten no sleep and had been in a state of panic for 14 hours.  Yesterday when I checked the mail, I ...

I got home from work last week and found Zeke chilling on the couch eating popcorn and watching TV.  "Heeeeey Wowie," he said, usi...

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 ...