*Note: This interview was originally published on Midlife at the Oasis. Not all kisses are loving, as Elin Stebbins Waldal reveals so bravely and intimately in Tornado Warning: A Memoir of […]
Phone Calls
It stems back to a different phone call. The phone call where I learned Jimmy’s mom had been killed in a car accident in a car that had made it’s own somersault launch from the freeway. We know it happens. We lived it. That is a phone call I never ever want to get again.
A Decade of Achieved Harmony
It’s January 3, 2011, and judging by my Facebook feed I may be the only person on the planet who hasn’t yet caught the “New Year’s Resolution” fever—meaning I […]
His bags were packed, he was ready to go
You can learn a lot about a person by messing with their plans. Really. Try volunteering to take someone to the airport, insist that you will take responsibility for setting […]
Mothers and Daughters
It is not unusual for my daughter and me to create time together. I absolutely love that weeks before her 13TH birthday she still says these words — “I can’t wait to spend […]
Walk A Mile In Her Shoes
I can think of no better way to kick off the Domestic Violence Awareness Month then to take part in a fund raiser that benefits victims of domestic violence!
There’s Something HUGE Coming Our Way
REAL life that is. What’s a “Pseudo Life?” you may be thinking. Of course all lives are real. But more times than not what is depicted for us as viewers […]
