Noooooooo!!! That moment you slam your car’s trunk shut and realize you’ve locked your keys AND your phone inside. I panicked. Did pay phones even exist anymore? Did I know…
I cringed. Someone was calling me by my maiden name. I was in a shopping mall, and a woman a few feet away had recognized me. I’d been a Christian…
My eyes measured the narrow space between our huge armoire and the bedroom wall. “I think it’ll fit!” I said eagerly. My husband’s eagle-eyed inspection was making me nervous.…
“He has Type 1 Diabetes.” At first I thought I’d heard the words wrong. But it was true. My oldest daughter had just learned that my 11-year-old grandson has Type…
My grandfather loved daylilies. He planted them in every kind of container imaginable. In bleach bottles with the tops sawed off, old tin buckets, rusted-out wagons…if it held dirt, my…
I’ve lost some of my zest for life. That’s my conclusion after spending a week with my five-year-old granddaughter. We did all the things. Princess dance camp,…
Even without movie subtitles, I watched and understood an entire movie spoken in a foreign language. I was a seven-year-old living with my family in Rota, Spain where my…
WHEN YOU FEEL REJECTED I was sixteen and it was a Saturday night. Like a lot of silly teenagers, my friend K and I had convinced ourselves we were losers—because,…
“Don’t forget the girl on the bench.” It’s a phrase I repeated like clockwork every morning as I drove my three daughters to school. They rolled their eyes because they’d…
I have a love-hate relationship with the first day of school. When my three daughters were young, I could barely contain my excitement as they prepared to meet their new…
