Today, I love you. I can’t say I love you every minute of every day. But today, I do. I love you even thought you made me really, really mad this morning. You remember, when our 12-year old son Jack was screaming and running through the kitchen. He was furious because he didn’t want to […]
Dear Carrie, I know things—things you think I cannot possibly know. I know whether or not Trump becomes President, and who won the 2025 World Series, and how many children Prince William has with Kate Middleton. I know which team won the Super Bowl in 2036, although I didn’t pay too much attention to the […]
I almost lost my marriage because of you. It was the year my son named Jack was born, and you were born right along with him. At first, we had no idea. He was just a squirming chubby baby who didn’t sleep too well and hated to be swaddled and cried a little more than […]
Living alongside of autism can be very, very hard. It is demanding and confusing and scary and weird. It’s easy for me to become negative, and maybe even a little bitter, about my 11-year old son Jack’s diagnosis. I mean after all, the tantrums! The rigidity! And don’t even get me started on the stimming. Jack […]
Hi everyone. It’s me, Wolfie. You might not recognize me because I got kind of a silly haircut a few weeks ago. My mom says I look like someone named Bea Arthur from a show called The Golden Girls. I’ve come a long way since my last blog post. I’m pretty much house-broken, unless I’m […]
Last week we had a new babysitter watch the kids, and she happened to stop by to meet everyone on an afternoon when 11-year old Jack had karate. This is new for us, him having an activity without me or one of the other four kids. He is rarely out of the house alone. Dare […]
My husband and I have a good marriage. Some days, I would even call it a great marriage. You might say it’s a love story of sorts; I’ve known him for nineteen years, and we’ve been married for almost seventeen. We went through undergraduate school together, then graduate school for me and dental school for […]
My husband, Joe, lost ten pounds in the last two weeks. How, you ask? Did he saw off his leg or contract malaria? Did he join Riverdance, a performance rumored to be so rigorous that dancers drop pound after pound on stage in water weight, and Irish jig his way to a sleeker frame? No, […]
“You guys should definitely check out the Deerfield Fair tomorrow,” our server told us on Saturday night. “Just get there early so it won’t be too hot.” Giddy and stupid from a pomegranate martini, I turned to my husband Joe and exclaimed, “The fair! Let’s get up early tomorrow morning and take the kids. They’ll […]
About ten years ago I watched an episode of Dr. Phil that changed my life. Well, maybe not my life exactly, but it changed a lot about how I feel about myself, which for most women is pretty much the same thing. Dr. Phil was talking with a young couple who were about to get […]