First, make elaborate plans for them. Choose them lovingly from the grocery store, imagining the slow drizzles of herb-infused oil over them. Tell yourself that your children will eat them THIS time, because they’ve never tasted the amazing flavors you’re going to cook into them. At home, shove them under the lettuce in the bottom …
I should be sleeping right now. But I’m typing. Because, here’s the thing: I love to write. I always have. It’s been my dream from childhood. Real life dreams can rob us of our sleep at times. But they feel worth it, don’t they? Along with writing, I had other dreams. To my great luck, …
Mother’s Day carries with it a sneaky assumption: I should get paid back for all the hard work I do as a mother.
She leaned a hip against the kitchen counter while I pulled pieces of smoked turkey meat from the bone, dropping them into the simmering pot beside me. “I feel like I don’t have any time to stop and talk to anybody.” She confided. “Between nursing school, work, and driving my daughter to school and to …
This year was supposed to be all different. I blame a wonderful New Year’s tradition my friends and I have. Would you like to hear a story? For the past few years a group of mommy friends and I have held a tradition. Each of us picks out a word as our focus for our …
The phantom smell of smoke still tingles my nose as I take a deep breath and look out the window of my sister’s house. The Sierra Nevada’s rise like soldiers outside: lumbering, protecting. In order to escape the smoke from the fires, I drove my children for hours and hours today to arrive at my …
