Some blocks have a “Crazy Cat Lady.” I am afraid that I may have become our block’s “Crazy Hosta Lady.” I have every kind of hosta you can imagine. Blue, elephant ear, lime green, green tipped, green striped, white flowering, and purple flowering. I could be considered a hosta hoarder, really. Many of my […]
Blackberries and Clothespins
Two things that were constants in my childhood- blackberries and clothespins. My mother, her mother, and her mother’s mother – all southern ladies, passed these traditions down to the next generation. They could make a blackberry cobbler with a shoe. There was always a steady stream of laundry on the line. Looking back, many of […]
Moving On…Literally
Nineteen years ago, I sat in this same room. I sat on a box in a room full of boxes and thought, “What have we done?” Here I am again, sitting on a box in a room full of boxes asking myself, “What have we done?” This house was the landscape of building our family. […]
That Time I Turned 40…Forty-licious If You’re Nasty
Yep. I am now forty-licious. “Forty-licious” is my word of the year. For my big 4-0, I thought I would share 40 of my deranged thoughts with you. 1. Do not tell me that 40 is the new 30. 40 is 40. Besides, when I was 30, I was kicking off a 6 year lactating […]
Naked On Healey Street
Everything in life is a balance. Motherhood is no exception. Balancing my need to provide guidance, structure and love to my children while maintaining all the things that make me me, has been a balancing act. When I am harping on homework, bedtimes, and OMGBRUSHYOURTEETHALREADY, I still want to have a dance party in the […]
A Melanoma PSA
I am not ready for this. At 41, I am not ready to worry about lumps in the breast. I am not ready to worry about friends with heart problems. I am not ready to worry about my friend’s moles. Yet, I am here. My generation spent time in tanning beds. We sunbathed with Baby […]
