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Mantis
A long time ago, our family happened upon this idea of what I'll call "God signs." The idea came through a friend of ours who had mentioned that whenever he was faced with a tough decision or was feeling conflicted or particularly low, he had started noticing...
Freebird
I am officially "old" today. My oldest kid turns 18, the moment she's been waiting for, when the heavens open up and the angels come down and bestow upon her the title of Adult, Grown Up, Legal. She can magically do lots of things today that she couldn't legally do...
All Creatures Great and Small
Last night we were startled by our neighbor's frantic knock on our front door in our quiet neighborhood. One of their Yorkshire terriors had been hit by a car just moments before. She'd scooped up the little dog and run a few doors down to our house, begging my...
50 Years
My best friend’s parents will have been married for 50 years this month. Fifty years. Living side by side while they jockeyed through careers, children, parents, finances. Fifty years of tolerating, compromising, communicating, sighing, partnering, and in their...
College Bound
I packed my firstborn off to college last week. Loaded up the car with a ridiculous over-estimation of how much stuff was actually vital to have and spent several hours in the August sun schlepping it all from the parking lot into the 12x12 new space she will now be...
Tipping the Balance
I have a gun hanging over my bed. Make whatever you want of that as a marital symbol, but several years ago, my father gave us five siblings a choice of some inheritable items and, rather than the set of china or some jewelry, the Civil War muzzle loader was what I...