Bruce and I were standing in front of a photograph, and I was squinting. “I don’t see it. I am terrible at these things,” I grumbled. My husband chucked and encouraged me to take two steps back and then shift my gaze a little to one brilliant spot on the right side of the photo….
When my husband and I got engaged, his friend Hal thought it was necessary to educate me on the ways of marriage. Hal was schooled in matrimony by his wife from Venezuela, and now that he was no longer wild and free, he considered himself a marital expert of sorts. We were standing in front…
As a child, I had a strong sense of justice. I lived in a home where the scales tipped heavily down in one direction, and I thought it was my job to defend the defenseless. If I could have had any superpower, it would have been the strength to make a nasty person behave nicely….
We set off, my family and I, into the high desert. Unfamiliar territory, it was marked by slot canyons and stark terrain. We were mountain hikers, more accustomed to treading over soft, tree-lined paths than through stony expanses. Trailhead signs warned that heat kills, admonishing all who dared pass to carry two liters of water….
This morning I woke up and got dressed and determined to face my day with a positive attitude. However, the minute I stepped out of the bedroom door, I immediately realized something awful had happened in the middle of the night, and my resolve quickly disappeared. Something had shifted while I was sleeping, and…
I started writing these words last night, but I had to close the laptop and go to bed because I was fading. My eyelids were heavier than my enthusiasm. Sadly, lately exhaustion has followed me around. like a very bad best friend. I still have 3 loads of laundry sitting on the dining room…