Last Sunday morning, Dave woke me up out of a sound sleep around 7:00 a.m. Em, I need your help. Hmm. Not a good sign because 1) Dave never wakes me up if I don’t have to be somewhere and; 2) he rarely needs my help. The combined oddities made me sit up in bed [...]
Lately more people have been leaving moderately important messages for me on my cell phone – sometimes voice, sometimes text. They aren’t emergency notifications, but the senders are in need of some sort of timely response. Which they don’t get from me. Because they left the message on my cell phone. Which was in my [...]
As you may have read below, last week I traveled with Noah to Song Leader Boot Camp in St. Louis. While planning for the trip, Dave and I first floated the idea of Noah flying out alone and meeting his good friend Eitan there. While we were prepared to consider this arrangement, I was secretly [...]
As you read this post, I am cooling my heels with very little to do in a three star hotel outside of St. Louis, MO. The view from my room is above. It’s sunset. I traveled here on Sunday for a single reason: To ensure that Noah would be able to flip a girl over [...]
When the boys were little, I was blissfully ignorant of the teenage challenges that awaited me. Or perhaps I was vaguely aware, but too consumed with the immediate, pressing issues of the day to fret over what might be down the road and around the bend. And then suddenly, I’m turning this parenting corner and [...]
Thump. Thump. Thumpthumpthumpthumpitythump. Thumpthumpthump. Thump. Snort. The sound started about six weeks ago in our house, and has been constant background music for us ever since. If you could call it “music.” Which no one could – especially me who has been suffering alongside our itchy dog day and night. The poor thing began scratching [...]
This post is the second open letter that I have written involving the Boy Scouts of America since Mothers of Brothers launched in May of 2008. The first, written in October of 2010, railed against the annual popcorn sales that our sons were subjected to – the product was embarrassingly overpriced and the kids were [...]
Note to Readers: I’m still a little giddy and a lot tired from the past weekend. Apologies in advance for pulling a “stream of consciousness, Jodie Foster-esque” rant below. But it’s a happy rant, so I hope you’ forgive me. The balls of my feet are worn. My limbs feel like they weigh about 800 [...]
All the cool kids were doing it. On Twitter. On Facebook. And when I say “the cool kids” I mean a few of my Tribe of creative soul sisters, plus a few thousand others. And when I say “it” I mean choosing one little word to live by in 2013. There was even a hash [...]
It was just before 7:00 a.m. on December 21 when I threw myself into a cab outside of the Arlington Hilton. The day before, I had a meeting at our offices, followed by our holiday party, culminating in a three block drenching walk in the pouring rain around midnight as I made my way [...]
