Category Archives: friendship
Happy belated Mother’s Day from a 2-and-a-half-year-old mom
Living things change. They adapt and grow and die. Trees leaf out, snakes molt, babies grow up into frat boys. It just happens. Aren’t you glad I picked this picture instead of one of a frat boy? So why is it I thought the moment I had a baby that I would be a (…) MORE »
I Hung One More Year on the Line . . .
I love that Paul Simon song, Have a Good Time. It starts out “Yesterday it was my birthday,” and that is true for me too. Yesterday, it was my birthday. I love getting older. I share my birthday, April 23 with Shakespeare and a whole host of lesser characters. I’m a proud Taurus born in (…) MORE »
In Media Res
I always wanted get born to be a place where participants could be unresolved without judgment, where conflictedness is our reality. I wanted it so desperately because it was and continues to be, what I need, sometimes more than breath.
Emergency Exit
The phone rang after breakfast. “Let me just start by saying this is an emergency,” my friend spoke in a hushed, urgent tone, her German accent especially heavy. “I found out that there’s a chance that…” He what? “So I took her for a special interview and they think it’s true.” She was six. “We (…) MORE »
Easy Schmeasy
I’m five months into my second round with active cancer. When I was first diagnosed in 2008, there was immense pressure, both internally and externally, to “make every moment count, as if saying count in italics, or with an italisized voice would make it stick. My inner voice, “HEATHER, make this moment count, dammit, even (…) MORE »
Don’t Mind Me
While I could write all day about my anxiety that one of the other children at my son’s preschool will be unkind to him, this post is not about kid-on-kid hostility. This post is about moms. Popular preschool moms, to be specific. My three-year-old started preschool in January, and he’s settling in pretty well. He (…) MORE »
