Two years ago I moved into a house that has a garden that can be kindly described as uncared for. The weeds were waist high, and soon after we moved in, the weeds were so tangled behind the house that it became difficult to walk there. My stepson has described our yard as “sorta ghetto.”
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In the chaos that is my everyday life, I sometimes forget to pay attention to the small shifts going on around me. One of the shifts that I noticed recently is in my teenage stepson. This year he started high school, and with it an intense sports program and a commute by public bus. With [...]
I get so excited when the holidays roll around – the aisles of your favorite store filling up with decorations and dollar stores cramming their storefronts with cheap plastic trinkets. I’ve held off from buying decorations for the past couple of years, but finally my daughter is old enough to participate in the traditions – [...]
I wish this idea were my own, but sorry to say, it isn’t. Lately, my night-time reading selections consist of autobiographies on personal and family struggles. Two months ago I finished both “Beautiful Boy” by David Sheff and “Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines” by Nic Sheff (his son). The elder Sheff, if I can recall [...]