Growing up in the south, the simple word “sugar” had so many meanings. It was that syrupy layer on the bottom of a jug of sweet tea, and it was the pet name all your aunties called you, and well, everyone else, even the Pastor. “Sugar” was the kisses your sweetheart gave when no one … Continue reading Gimme some sugar
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Screwed
Contemptuous sighs and lethal stink-eyes Silent treatments that last for days Their digits double, omnipotent Our IQs fail by half, dotage Teen years, an exhausting level Of parenting purgatory Still, I survive
Have camel, will travel
Tomorrow morning, hours before the sun comes up, my husband is taking our daughter to the airport. She’ll make two connections, and take train ride, before boarding another plane to carry her across the ocean to Northern Africa. For the next three weeks she’ll be living and studying in a foreign country… in the grand … Continue reading Have camel, will travel
Christmas past memories
Years ago, I made my children an Advent calendar. Finding the right trinkets to fill each pocket took three months. We don’t put the calendar out anymore. Christmas, apparently, is for little kids.
with a bang or a whimper?
It's 5:33 a.m., Friday, Dec. 12, 2012. And, I'm awake. Not because the world is destined to end in less than 20 minutes, but because this is my usual insomnia-induced, circadian rhythm hell. All my peeps are tucked, asleep in bed, oblivious to the pending doom. I'm fighting a powerful urge to rouse them all, making them … Continue reading with a bang or a whimper?
Key to my heart
The bridal party settled at the head table, while the rest of the wedding guests filled in the other seats around the reception hall. Servers brought out dinner plates and poured goblets of wine and water. As the empty dishes were removed, attendants rose to give their speeches toasting the newlyweds, my cousin Denise and … Continue reading Key to my heart
Thin spiral notebook 