In less than a week, I will be 48 years old. Or, as my 14-year-old likes to say, two years from 50. Yikes, where did the time go? It seems like just yesterday, I was a 20-year-old acting student hanging out in Greenwich Village, drinking black coffee, and going to midnight showings of foreign films that I pretended I liked and understood because the guy I loved happened to … [Read more...]
Spilling the Beans
My 48th birthday is only a few weeks away. In two more years, I hit the half-century mark. When I first came into the world in 1965, the milk man brought the milk, calls were made on a rotary phone, and if you should be unlucky enough to fall asleep early on the night that Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, or A Charlie Brown Christmas was on, you were out of luck until the … [Read more...]
My Normal Heart
The summer is almost over. Thank God. I enjoyed the longer days, the warmer weather, and having my kids around more. It was nice not having to help with math homework that I wasn’t good at when I was eight and am even less adept at now that I’m 47. That part was great. But this summer has brought a case of the blues--a feeling I’m not at all comfortable with.I am wired to avoid … [Read more...]
Only Yesterday
Yesterday I found myself reliving a piece of my childhood. My father was driving, my mother was in the front seat, and I was wedged in the back with my two sisters. Even though my sisters and I are now all in our forties, have seven kids between us, and my dad was actually driving my sister’s SUV, I couldn’t help but feel like I was 11. If we were in the old Volvo with a bag … [Read more...]
Waiting for My Postcard from GOD
As hard as it is for me to believe, this July marked the 23rd anniversary of the first date I had with my husband, Joe. I feel as if I just blinked and went from an almost 25 year old woman who had no idea what she was going to do with her life, to a 47 year old mom of three who still has no idea of what she wants to do with her life. When I look back to that time, I remember … [Read more...]
