Category Confessions
If Buddha was a working mother
I often strive to be a better mom and sometimes when I have the patience, I attempt to be a better human. I try to find balance in a life that seems to have very little and I aim to be tolerant when my will has broken into millions of pieces and the only thing keeping […]
My Challenge to Huffington Post: Make Marriage More Important
On the eve of my 3 year wedding anniversary, I wrote an article on my blog detailing my thoughts on marriage thus far. It occurred to me that others might find it useful and that it would be a good fit for the “marriage” section of Huffington Post. Only there isn’t a section for marriage on Huff Post. […]
Marriage: Giving Up
Today marks my 3 year wedding anniversary and I’m feeling a bit conflicted. Marriage just isn’t quite what I thought it would be but then again I’m not sure I knew what to expect. All I know is that I’ve come to understand that it’s hard – really hard sometimes – to make two lives coexist in […]
The Art of Losing Oneself
People say it like it’s a bad thing, to lose oneself. I don’t see it as such. What does it mean anyway, to be lost? Obliviously there are both literal and philosophical interpretations. Physically it’s pretty difficult to misplace yourself – aren’t you always right there? But the answer to this question becomes less clear when we ask it from […]
How Parenthood is Oddly Like Doing Drugs
Want to know what drug use and parenthood have in common? I thought you might. If you were around in the 80s, you may remember the anti-narcotics commercial from the PDFA (Partnership for a Drug Free America) that was famous for coining the term, “This is Your Brain on Drugs”. The popular advertisement showed an […]
Missed Connections – Our ‘Almost’ Family Soul Mate
To the adorable couple we met at the water park a few weeks back with whom we forgot to exchange numbers, my husband and I mourn the loss of a friendship with you that we never had. It isn’t every day that you meet your family’s soul family, which is exactly what you were, and we are deeply afraid that we’ve […]
Love in the Middle of the Night
I have to fight with my eyes to wake. They’re reluctant to open, sealed shut with sleep and tethered to dreams of splendor. I will them open anyway and stumble towards the coughing in the other room. My legs have needles in them and I look like I’ve just spent too much time on a boat, swaying […]
Things Fall Together
Its starts with the incessant ringing of a telephone. Its Superbowl Sunday and the Seahawks are playing the Broncos. A Mediterranean feast envelops the dining room table. Friends are piled on the couch and I can hear the distant sound of cheering coming from the living room. We try to avoid the alarming ring that seems to rip us from […]
What I’m Not Teaching My Son
It all came to a head last Wednesday while on my way home from work. It had been a long and emotionally draining week and my son, Weston, was in the backseat throwing a tantrum because I looked at him. When I double checked the rear view mirror to see if he was still upset and I couldn’t […]
It’s Selfish to Have Only One Child
That’s the feeling I get after seeing the look on people’s faces when I tell them we are still thinking about whether or not we want to have more children. I admit, I may be fully imagining this skeptical reaction and completely inventing the judgment in their eyes but somehow it feels so real. Then again, maybe I’m […]
The Confessioness 