This morning when my husband opened the door to catch the commuter train downtown, he found the most wonderful thing waiting on our doorstep – our first produce box of the season! This is the second year that we have participated in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program, and each…
Two weeks ago my family – including my husband and sons, my sister and her family, my brother and his wife, and my parents – descended on the greater San Antonio area to celebrate my mom’s 60th birthday. It had been a trip that was years in the making, with…
One of the only two plants that are still alive in our house is a tiny little cactus. At first glance, it seems like any ordinary cactus – spindly, thorny, and hazardous, albeit small. But on closer inspection, you would see that its barbs are more like bristly hairs, and…
That damn teddy bear nearly ruined my morning. Sitting front and center inside the doors of Old Navy, it proudly flaunted its blue scarf and beckoned to be cuddled. It was at least as big as my two-year-old son so, naturally, he just had to have it. “Honey, we aren’t…
We’re all just walking each other home. – Ram Das Watching…waiting…wondering… with when’s and why’s and how’s that are met with heart-breaking silence or intolerable and offense retorts. Expectations lie shattered, a million sharp shards from a sparkly glass ornament that slipped from the bough. Anticipations run amok as wild…
The Christmas season is here. Our tree is up, hundreds of twinkling lights are wrapped around and between needles and branches. I have been listening to Christmas music at home and in the car almost nonstop since mid-November. Sparkly ornaments and jingly bells and round Santas are strewn about the…