This is one of the hardest things I have had to do. But I need a break. These past few months I have dreaded Sunday mights when I have had to sit down and write a post for Monday. Blogging has become an assignment, a chore, and something that I am currently not enjoying. And [...]
It’s about 10 a.m. on Saturday morning and I am in my home office puttering around. I hear the door open down the hall signaling that Noah has awoken from Teenage Slumberland. He pads down the hall and, on his way to his bowl of Honey Nut Cheerios, he stops in for what has become [...]
He lay on his bed, face down with his hands protectively covering the back of his head. His voice was low and sad; it was the voice of surrender. Mom. It was literally like a cheese grater rubbing against my forehead. All. Day. Long. Big sigh. This was Noah on Tuesday describing his last two [...]
Twenty years ago, before I was married, I worked for a woman whom I very much admired. She was in her early forties with two young children, and had risen to a senior level at the bank where I began my career. I wanted to be just like her and wondered if some day I [...]
