I wrote this post and published it back in April 2013…and it still is one of my most deeply personal. I also worried about how it might affect my family because we are at our core pretty private people. However, they say that you also must write what you know and share your stories, and […]
Losing Someone You Thought Was a Forever Friend
It happens. I know. I just didn’t think it would be you. It’s complicated. And yes, we both had a part in the friendship’s demise. I don’t claim to be a saint or innocent. But I’m thankful at least I can say I kept trying. For a while at least. It sucks because our kids […]
The Rules for Summer Camp
Summer means beach trips. Lounging by the pool. Cooking out and watermelon, fireflies and fireworks. It’s also the time that my baby bird spreads her wings and flies off to summer camp. (Her brother-not so much. He begged to not go this year.) This will be her 7th summer. You’d think it would get easier. […]
Choosing the Road Less Traveled
20 years ago, I was the picture of career-minded and ambitious. Newlywed, fresh off my first year in law school, and working a a law clerk for a well-known law firm, the world was my oyster. The previous year, I had graduated from the University of South Carolina magna cum laude in English. I presented […]
On Your Thirteenth Birthday…
My sweet T became a TEEN today. What a wonderful blessing. And yet-I have to write this. Let me know what you think of this mom’s letter to her 13 year old: Thirteen. Teenager. I cringe just writing that. Because I am talking about you-my firstborn. My ten pound baby girl that was pulled into […]