Words have always come easy to me. My parents told me I was speaking full sentences by the time I was 18 months old. At two, I corrected my grandmother’s pronunciation of Santa Claus. Words came easy. My voice was another matter. It wasn’t until I became a mother that I found it. I was a shy, insecure young woman. The dyslexia that made school and life so hard made me an … [Read more...]
This Year I’m Taking the Mom Exemption From a New Year’s Resolution
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Season’s Greetings! New Year’s Eve is less than a week away, and it’s only fitting to re-run my piece about my take on moms and New Year’s resolutions. The Dishwasher and I wish you a wonderful holiday surrounded by friends and family. Thank you for your support of me and the crazed appliance. The packages have been opened, and the kids … [Read more...]
5 Reasons Why I’m Grateful I’m Not a Turkey
Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away. This means that you can’t open a paper, magazine, or website without finding a host of articles on gratitude. You can even find articles complaining about the people who write about how grateful they are. I have always found this topic fairly easy to write about. Counting my blessings is pretty easy as I have much in my life to be … [Read more...]
The Happy Ending That Was Really a Beginning
“Well that’s it, I’ve finally flipped,” was all I could think of as I spent the 45-minute commute into my office obsessing over the fact that we didn’t have enough life insurance on my husband. I couldn’t understand why I was obsessing on this, considering that our family was Joe, me, and our cat. Obviously it was time to take my fertility doctor up on her offer to give … [Read more...]
Time Machines, Peanut Allergies, and Motherhood
As much as I love writing, every few weeks I find myself staring at a blank screen willing something, anything to come to me. It’s at these times that my family really sees the best of my personality as I go room to room begging everyone to give me an idea, any idea to write about. Today, my youngest, Peter, suggested I write about a time machine. This idea grabbed me. What … [Read more...]
