I put my five year old in all day kindergarten. Fought for it.  Raised hell for it.  Cried shamelessly in front of the school secretary whe...

 I came here to write.  My brain asking me to settle some thoughts.  Then I got sucked in.  Sucked in to this blog.  What it is, what it onc...

 It is the eleven year anniversary of my dad's death. That sentence is jarring to me.  How was it been eleven years?  Eleven years witho...

I broke up with the boy. He was here for six months.  With all the patience and desire and love that any girl could hope for.  He  thought I...

 Sometimes I feel so nostalgic for my marriage.  A marriage that was unhealthy and trying and often lonely.  But still.  I miss it sometimes...

 A boy. I am dating a boy. He's been here for a minute.  We're working on five months now.  I tried to ask him to leave a few times....

I t’s been a minute since I’ve written anything. What does it take to start writing again? To find my way back to this blog?   A global pand...

The boy I dated around Christmas. This was Round Two for us.  We dated ten years ago.  I was 23 and full of life and energy and convinced...

I saw my ex husband at a Jazz game the other week. I knew he was going to be there.  He told me earlier that day.  We have children toge...

My baby starts school tomorrow. All day long she has packed and repacked her backpack, practiced drawing letters on lined paper, made pic...

Yesterday was my 33rd birthday.   It felt appropriate today to post this,  something I have written off and on the past year,  while...

a year ago he left said this is never going to work firstly denial begging for it to work I'll do anything to keep this marria...

It was Sunday.  It was raining. We woke up from a long afternoon nap.  All three of us.  (That's what we are now.  Three of us.) I...

I broke up with my boyfriend this week. Was he my boyfriend? I don't know.  He called himself my boyfriend.  He was my take me to d...

How do you process a divorce, a family disrupted, years of struggle that finally culminate in an abrupt ending?  How do you accept that you...

I thought I lost this blog. The domain name expired.  I didn't move fast enough.  And when I did move it was overwhelming and confusi...

The first time I felt it was in July.  I was on vacation with my family in Southern California- my mom and her (really great) new husband a...

Sundays are the hardest days for me. I feel it from deep inside.  A desire to hide.  To crawl into bed and never get out.  To cry and cry...

It happened today at Hobby Lobby. Everything was innocent.  So regular Tuesday morning, so easy,  so not "Oh my gosh I'm getting...

Sometimes I wonder. How will I look back on this time in my life? When I'm 64 what will I think of 32 year old me? 32 year old Bo...