In 2008 I planned my 10 year high school reunion. It was basically one of the most mortifying experiences of my life because I was 4 months pregnant – you know the time in a pregnancy when people can’t quite tell if you are pregnant or if you just have a huge beer gut and they don’t want to ask for fear they will get punched in the face – and I was still carrying weight from my first pregnancy so I was not looking my hottest. But, I was hell bent on having that reunion and swallowing my pride read more…

I have not written in weeks. Not a blog post, not a short story, not a poem… nothing. This is weird for me because though I do not consider myself to be an actual writer, I do write constantly. But lately, I have been completely creatively constipated (how’s that for some alliteration). I suppose the first question should be what has happened in the last few weeks that has killed my creative energy? Well, I have returned to work part-time and initially, I tried to blame my mental drought on my return to the grind but the truth is that read more…

Today was my little guy’s first birthday. It was a special day but the chaos that is my life still ensued because when you have two little boys that is just how it goes. It was a preschool morning so we were in the throes of the morning rush when something happened that literally almost gave me a heart attack and left me totally wiped for the rest of the day because it was so overwhelming. We have an SUV which I prefer to a minivan but truth be told, it is not ideal for getting the kids in and read more…