The Glitter Shoes of Death – or – Maybe I’m Old Enough To ReThink Stilletos
Yesterday I was walking out of church with my littlest dude–because we're religious like that–and I was all tricked out in my $6 sparkly shoes […]
Patience
Death by Soup
Do you know what it's like to make twenty soups? Twenty pots of onions sautéed with garlic, or cooked with carrots and potatoes, or boiled […]
Harry Potter Makes Me Crabby
When JK Rowling (whose name, by the way, is mightily close to mine. My maiden name, at least. Look: Joanne K. Rowling / Janiel Rowley. See? And […]
Everything I Know About Parenting I Learned In … um … er
My, how life changes us. You know? My college sophomore-child dropped by the other day (because apparently my washer has better agitation-action than the ancient […]
Twenty-Six Years of Wedded Blitz. I Mean Bliss.
(This is a picture of a picture and it's wonky. We look like bobble-heads on doll-bodies. Maybe we really were, actually. And yeah, that's a […]
Life is a Roller Coaster. Arms & Legs In At All Times.
Okay, seriously. My knuckles are not that arthritic looking in real life. Before I got married– back when I knew everything– I had a list […]
Thank You. I Think.
I'm grateful for a lot of things. My home. Which, even though there is a mysterious indentation approximately the size and shape of a giant […]
Teenage-hood. It’s A Shakespearean Thing.
(My kid a few years ago, competing as a very Goth Lady Macbeth–with intense sunlight creating a curtain through the open roof) How's your week […]
My Eyes ALWAYS Look Like This When I’m Listening
Do you know what the hardest part of being a parent is? Do you? It's listening to everything–I mean EVERYTHING–your child has to say to […]
Gentle as a Buldozer
Do you remember that one time two days ago when I decided I wasn't a terrible mother, and then one of my kids did something […]