I thought my first Mother’s Day was going to be blissful. I’m someone who loves my birthday (and being spoiled!), so I thought Mother’s Day would be another opportunity in the year to feel special and be treated like a queen. That first year, I quickly learned that while you might be treated nicely on […]
When I was a kid, our family of four lived in a home with one bathroom, and I recall deciding, whenever my mother was in the bathtub, that I needed to speak with her at that moment about something highly important. I remember sitting on the toilet lid, chatting away to my captive audience. I […]
Once upon a time, I wrote for two hours a day. I woke up before the sun and worked on a manuscript while my coffee was hot and my brain was firing on, filling my mornings with my favorite thing to do before heading in for work. These are not those days. Today I still […]