Sometimes a best friend can come in a tiny package
Long ago, when I was a child, if my bestie went on to find a new friend, I cried. No, I take that back. It meant the world was ending, and I blubbered hysterically.
For days after, I’d eat alone at lunch and later walk home by myself, feeling miserable. This would carry into the weekend, where I sat in my bedroom for hours because I had no one to play with. Luckily, as life would […]
Tim and Jordan
The sun had set, and the tables were lit with soft-colored candles, their flames fluttering in the gentle Texas wind. My daughter, Jenni, had just danced her first dance with her new husband, and the crowd was getting ready for dinner to be served. While the bride and groom were glowing and everything was planned to perfection, a moment, just one sweet little scene, caught my attention as I sat down.
There on the dance floor, all by themselves, were my son Tim […]
In 2018, a year after I turned 65, my daughter Lauren gifted me with my first grandson, Bo. I’d waited such a long time for the blessed event – so long that I often thought it would never happen. All four of my children were well into their thirties and taking their sweet old time with this phase of their lives. So, when it was announced he would arrive that August, I decided to research all the ways to be, and not to be, […]
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After dawning my super-powerful, diamond-crusted Grammie cape, I checked my eye makeup one more time before adjusting my mask and spraying one final mist of liquid glue to my curls. Despite the fact my first grandson, Bo, had a new name for me (Old Grandma) I was determined to not then, not ever, show my age. So out the door I ran to monitor the afternoon play on the cul-de-sac.
Life in a neighborhood filled with small children is busy. There are balls […]
As I drove home from the grocery store with my two-and-half-year-old grandson, Bo, I notice the five-year-old neighbor down the street running after our car. Delighted to see one of the kiddos on the block, Bo screamed with delight, “Stevie! Stevie! Grammie, look, there’s Stevie.”
Now, I know most grandparents think their grandchildren are prodigies, and I’m no different. While Bo is still considered a toddler, he is way beyond his years in speech and critical thinking. Having a conversation with him is not only […]
Studying the woman at the bar, I was shocked she’d ask me such a personal question. After all, we’d just met. I was waiting for my girlfriend to arrive at the Los Altos Grill when this stranger plopped herself on the barstool next to mine. And, as women do, we began to chat about kids, being single parents, and making it in this world without a partner. We barely got to exchanging names when she hit me with a zinger.
“When was the last time […]
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