I see my husband far more than the average since we both work from home (aside from short gigs here-and-there). He's actually working a contract job this month at the University of Arizona. It's part-time, temporary, 9am-4pm, three days a week. He leaves in the mornings, handsome in slacks and shaved face. Even before he walks […]
It's 11pm and the baby isn't asleep. Tim walks around the kitchen in track pants and TOMS shoes, holding her, humming deeply. Tomorrow will be another day to try to figure out how to have three small children and an entrepreneurial life. Our days are atypical - both of us at home - equally sharing […]
If I had to describe you in one word, I'd choose hard-working. But not in the typical American way, moving up the rungs of a ladder...while your family waves from below. Not that kind at all. You work hard on the things people SAY matter, but then they don't really follow up. For example: you […]
She stands in the 3am light in the doorway of our master bedroom, one hand on her tiny hip. Pink monkey pajama pants. Sweetest of 2-year-old voices, "I need to go potty." I take her to the bathroom. We are both quiet, too tired to speak. Afterward, Tim opens his arms and she snuggles in, […]
You charmed me with your green eyes in 1998. I still remember the way you caught my elbow with your hand as I walked to your car that night. "Stealing my keys, stealing my heart," your voice pounded in my blood. You were my first kiss. My first everything. We grew up together - you […]
Someday, when we settle down again - I'd like to live in a city where... home birth is legal homeschooling is alive and well or there are innovative educational models available the library, the park, & the grocer are within a 5-mile radius of my house there is a thriving university or liberal arts college […]