Violet had seen the furry white ball darting from bush to bush for the last month. She could have hidden in her grande Starbucks cup. Her smallness lifted a fear from an internal cavern Violet refused to see in herself.…

You are like me and different, too. For instance. They say we look the same, that it's obvious we're mother and daughter. I see a resemblance, at certain angles and when you smile. I tell myself, rather hope, that we're…

The show was returning for its sixth season, and for the first time neither Josh nor I would be there. There is no announcement for leaving your ex-boyfriend and dating his best friend and then you two leaving the workplace…

I caution you as I was never cautioned, that middle aged knees can be a bitch, by which I mean it's not excruciating pain per se but more of a dull ongoing weakness and vague ache, that your pelvic floor…

I found myself in the middle of a conversation about childbirth the other day. Besides the setting (the office where I work), the odd thing about it is that I've never given birth to a child myself. So I was…

I want to tell you something - nothing lasts. Everything changes, morphs, transforms, disappears. I want to tell you this so you won't be surprised when you notice it happening. Friends come and go. People who, as a child, you…

Mrs. Kind turned toward her daughter, but kept her head lowered. “Nora, I caution you as I was never cautioned.” Her voice thick and heavy, as if the words were weighing her tongue and heart down. “Don’t be so careful…

First take the eggs out of their clever little sockets in their carton. Pay homage to the inventor of the egg carton. Nestle them into a big pot of cold water, i know it seems counter-intuitive but it works somehow,…

Perhaps not. I didn't. But now that I'm old(er), i listen...i listen intently...i truly listen and finally hear. Because I have learned that old thing about God having given us two ears and only one (overactive) mouth: we are meant…

“I caution you as I was never cautioned,” the man in the green mask growled to the man with the gun.. “I caution you as I was never cautioned,” the crone, wagging a bony finger, said to me in an…

I caution you as I was never cautioned. The flight attendants are overworked and underpaid. The plane is delayed or canceled about 40% of the time. The airline waits until the last minute to tell you there is a 6-hour…