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Fantasy Vs. Reality, Take 2920*
I loved Easter when I was a kid. My father bought me a wrist corsage. I wore a new dress with eyelet trim. The crocuses bloomed. When we sang, “Jesus Christ is Risen Today,” I got tears in my eyes. I wanted to give my kids the same sense of wonder at Easter. Even (…) MORE »
Star of the Week
Last week was my four-year-old’s turn to be star-of-the-week at preschool. He’d been talking about this event for months. “How many weeks, Mommy? How many weeks ‘til I’m star-of-the-week?” he’d ask, all excited. But as it came time to put together some pictures for him to bring into class, he became less enthusiastic about (…) MORE »
Old Friends
“We are more different now than we were as kids, but that’s the way old friends work, I think. [] Your lives can branch off in completely different directions, but always, you share that knot of past-heartbreaks and sleepovers and screened-in porches-and the raw, peculiar memory of yourself which, in part, belongs to them.” From (…) MORE »
A Skip in Her Step
First, my daughter walked. Next, she jumped. And then… she skipped. She skipped through the grocery store, down the sidewalk, and around the house. She skipped to school; she skipped to the doctor’s office. The girl got air. She kicked her heels out to the side leprechaun-style. Little old ladies saw her and stopped me, (…) MORE »
Birth Control Made Me Crazy. Like Really Crazy.
In college, I had my first episode of depression after my boyfriend and I broke up. Ten years later, I became depressed again– this time after my daughter’s birth, which was fraught with complications. Both times my depression followed a pattern: a serious event surrounded by a lot of stressors for which I did (…) MORE »
