Review: "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body" by Roxane Gay
Being a fat woman in America is similar to first century lepers: your condition is so abhorrent, so disgusting, so unacceptable that if...
Unconditional Love (and other lies my children cured me of.)
Mothering is much like skill games at the state fair. It looks easy until the carny puts the ring into your hand. Then, not only is not...
That Space between Dreams and Reality
There’s a space between dreams and reality. As a kid, you were taught to dream. Into adolescence you were told to aim for those dreams...
Just Wait
When my kids were babies/toddlers (and the joy came easy) well-meaning older parents would say to me ominously "Just wait..." Just wait?...
The Great Thing
Truth be told I never wanted children. I had decided that they cost a lot of money. Money that could be going to great things. They take...
The Best Years
Christian Chiero turns 20 today. Christian was the kid born happy and he never stopped smiling. Christian Alan - the all boy with a...
Highway 21
The road to age 21 is a two-way street. You come and go. Even as the absences grow longer – there is always a coming back – your stuff...
