Today is Grandparents Day, and I find my thoughts drifting back to memories of my grandmother’s kitchen. My mom’s mother—–we call her Honey–—taught me how to cook. I was the only grandchild that liked cooking, and she loved mentoring me. I never saw her measure anything; it was always a touch of this and a [...]

Remember how when you were a kid, time seemed to pass so very slowly? It felt as though ten years passed between Christmases and birthdays. A car ride from Georgia to Florida took a week and a half, at least. And a ten-minute time-out felt like wasting an entire afternoon staring at a blank wall. [...]

“By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.” -Helen Hunt Jackson Over the past week, I’ve heard several friends lamenting the end of August. I’ve tried to sympathize with their sorrow, and the mourning of summer-lovers everywhere. But try as I might, I just [...]

Sometimes I can’t believe that I’m going to have another little boy. I’ve mentioned before that I grew up with only sisters. So when the ultrasound showed that my first baby was male, I entered a season of uncertainty over my ability to mother a son. Most of the boys I’d babysat were monsters, so [...]

It all started when they decided to store the Christmas presents in my office.