Even before I got out of the car I questioned why I was here. I had pulled myself away from a cozy fire and good company to go out into a chilly, damp December night. I was about to walk into an overheated crowd of locals, some of whom I hadn’t seen for twenty years [...]
Posts Tagged ‘getting older’
Perpetuating our own truth
Posted in Journaling Techniques & Prompts, Life, Home & Community, Living Authentically, Memoir, tagged anxiety, authenticity, getting older on December 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Saying goodbye
Posted in Life, Home & Community, tagged getting older, mother on October 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today I took down the crib that cradled my two children through nights and naps from infancy into their toddler years. And today I cried. It’s not that I want another baby. It’s not that I’m attached to the 3rd-hand crib or the space it was taking up in the kids’room. It isn’t even because [...]
Tick Tock, The Clock Won’t Stop
Posted in It's all About Me, tagged getting older on September 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is just uncalled for. On the eve of my 36th birthday I found, not one, not two, but three gray hairs peeking out from under my otherwise auburn mass (not Auburn, Massachusetts… hehe, I’m so funny). How does that happen? One day you have none and the next you have three pigmentally-challenged hairs. Do [...]





