Bring goodness and light to the holiday
Less than two weeks until Christmas, and I haven’t sent out our annual photo cards. I haven’t finished buying gifts for my various relatives, friends, family, neighbors and pets. I […]
View ArticleMisty and mindful under the mistletoe
I’ll admit it. I’m a sap, a spineless, simpering, soft-hearted, sentimental fool. I’m one of those people who tears up at the slightest little things — a tidbit of news, […]
View ArticleThanksgiving, Interrupted
And so it begins. No sooner did use my thumbnail to scrape a dribble of turkey gravy off my sweater, than — WHOMP! — the Christmas hoopla hit me like […]
View ArticleMy Strange Holiday Addiction
“You didn’t buy another ceramic Christmas tree, did you?” my husband, Francis, asked, holding the box the mailman had left on our porch. “Never you mind!” I said, grabbing the […]
View ArticleHoliday head-to-head reveals need for normalcy
“Lilly, wake up!” I whisper-yelled to my sleeping daughter, who looked as if she’d slipped into a coma overnight... Lilly emitted a deep groan, clearly indicating that she’d forgotten the plan: Get up...
View ArticleChristmas in the Box
He had been gone for eight months. At home, life hovered somewhere between controlled chaos and relative insanity. But the kids and I were fine. We would make it to February, when Francis would return...
View ArticleA Holiday Party Invitation
My pants were tight. My hair was frizzy. My nail polish was chipped. And I was constipated. But it didn’t matter. Locusts could swarm our car, boils could break out on my skin, and the sun could...
View ArticleChristmas with the Crud
I dragged a fake tree from the basement and collapsed onto the couch, where I fell asleep with my mouth open while watching a crime documentary about serial killers...
View ArticleMonstrous Holiday Expectations: A Mother’s Cautionary Tale
When I thought I was creating wonderful family traditions, I was really creating impossible family expectations that would come back to bite me in the holidays to come.
View ArticleSucking the Merry out of Christmas
Thanks, Marie. Like some kind of yuletide plastic surgeon, you just liposuctioned the Merry right out of Christmas.
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