Archive for the ‘Essays’ Category

Walking 8.6 Miles In His Shoes

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Since Tuesday this week, the first day of Troy's new job, I've been taking him to work every day (we have just the one car), and I've also been picking him UP every night (at ONE IN THE MORNING, AUUUGH), because we didn't have the county transit taxi set up ...

Dear Joey (A Letter to My Son, Just Because) [REPOST]

Monday, May 19th, 2008

I posted a link here yesterday, but it's such a great post that I really enjoyed writing that I want it here, too.  If you haven't read it yet, here is my post about Joey: . . . . . Dear Joey, I posted about your sister recently - it was mostly to ...

My daughter is JUST LIKE ME!

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Actually, this is not entirely true. My eight-year-old girl - dark-haired, poised, open, fragile - is really not very much like me most of the time. I used to think that we were just alike, she and I, and then one day I realized I thought so because ...

I sold my soul to coffee when I was sixteen.

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

New feature: I will be writing essays here and there, which will be more reminiscent and personally anecdotal than my normal spit-it-out blogging. I hope you like it! I have been drinking coffee since my mother introduced me to the decadence that is iced coffee, the summer I was fifteen. ...