The clock on my laptop says exactly 3:45 a.m. My body aches as I put my two-year-old back in her bed. It’s been a long three days of flu in our house. The call to parenting lately includes wiping noses, holding and consoling children, being a source of strength, all the while knowing you too might […]

I walk out of my room this morning to find hearts all over our door. Our seven-year-old hand penned on them, “I love you”. She must have remembered the year I smothered love notes everywhere, reminding her just how special she is to us. The windows sparkle with red, laced hearts. Presents specifically chosen, especially for […]

If you ask me, it doesn’t take five minutes or half a brain to lure sexually pursuing men. There is no art to desire, no “tact” in being a woman who can draw any kind of desperation in the male species. And then, take two gorgeous Latina women, who know how to shake their backsides at […]

Paris, France. I never in a million years could have guessed, you would be across the ocean, touring for three months, Europe, on the day we celebrate your entry into this world. And how giving birth to that infant that wouldn’t cry…the one doctor’s literally spanked because you were so wide-eyed and filled with quiet wonder… […]

Seemingly a thousand nick-nacks lay scattered across my bedroom floor. It’s 5:30 in the morning and they stare back at me almost begging for me to touch them… There sits a small chalk board I used to prop in front of my children on their first day of school, a pink tiny converse I just couldn’t […]

Like a machine gun of bullets shooting through my chest, their words threw me back, helped me feel a piece of death…killed a little part of the trust I had placed in them. She was someone I deeply trusted. Yet, in one of my darkest days, daggers were heard from her annihilating my character, throwing me […]