The Importance of Friendship
I love working from home, most of the time. The flexibility is so nice – being able to work only once I have all the kids off to school and being able to stop as soon as I see Parker coming up the street as he walks home. When the project schedules for my clients are...
When In Doubt, Bite Your Tongue
My daughter Kira is 20. By the time I was her age, I had been married for over a year, after walking away from my full-ride scholarship to Washington State University in order to move home and play house with a man no more mature than I was. We were doomed from the...
Babysitter Blues
Finding a babysitter is tough. We have been spoiled. By the time we had Parker, Kira was almost 11 years old. By the time I was willing to leave Parker with a babysitter, Kira was not only old enough to babysit but someone who loved him as much as we did. Parker is...
Keeping Family Close
When my mom was a kid and her parents divorced, she didn’t see her dad for almost a decade…until she was married and had a child of her own (me) and decided to reach out. My husband’s parents divorced and he never built a relationship with his...


