I’ve been trying to write this post all day. It’s 10:30 PM and I’m finally off my feet. I haven’t written a Twinspin in…

Act IV, Scene 1
 
Halloween 2010. Wet driveway. Relentless Rain.
 
Enter the three witches.

Double, double toil and trouble.
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
 
Eye of…

It was a moment of deliberation. While wiping down the kitchen table, cleaning up the whoosh of a mess from lunch and our preschool…

Thirty women. From different places, different faiths and different life paths. They came from Massachussetts, North Carolina, Connecticut, New York, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico,…

Every so often I need out; something will throw me into total disproportion, and I have to get away from everybody – away from…

Guess who’s coming for dinner tonight?

Daddy! It’s October 15th! A regular day for most people but for us, it’s “Cel-e-bra-tion time!” (Can you hear…

Eliza came home from Grandma Ronda’s house last week – WAY excited to show me this picture she had drawn.

“Mom! Look! This is me…

It’s true. I’ve been watching you. Not in the creepy, lock-your-doors kind of way, but in the unspoken, wonder-and-admire kind of way.
So I wrote…

They’re coming at us so quickly. Like balls in a batting cage, mile markers on the highway. Kindergarten, Preschool, dance class, first teeth, first…

So it’s Drug Free Week at the elementary school. Somehow I missed the memo that the kids were supposed to wear red all week…