To the dad at the Children's museum this morning: I know you are busy. I know that you were probably on your phone for work purposes. Yo...

Do you have time for a story? Good. Get some coffee. Wait. Too hot for coffee, to early for beer. So iced tea or diet Coke. I'll wait. R...

I am feeling at once very blessed and very very heavy hearted. A boy in our neighborhood, one we just recently met and played with at the po...

Am I too honest here? Do I say too much? Do I give too much away? Good. Because I KNOW that I am saying and writing the things some people g...

It began with a flare of temper, a whine, words thrown out of an unkind heart, pressed through lips set in anger. It began with me being pre...

I am frozen here. Caught in my own web. Caught in the thought that what I look like is as important as WHAT I AM. No, read that again. Becau...

Screeching lifts me from my sleep/coma. "Daaaaadeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Daaaaaaaaaaaadeeeeeeeeeeee. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeleeeeeeeeee." I push Mar...