Keeper of the Fruit Loops

As a parent, there are a few moments that stop you in your tracks and make you want to run screaming from the room: the first time you realize your toddler can reach the top of the stairs in under three seconds, the first time you hear a swear word out of one of your […]

Scene: the dinner table, a few years ago. Fruit Loop #2: “How do you KNOW that you should marry a person?” Fruit Loop #1: “When you meet the right person, a spark happens. Then you have to nurture the spark so it becomes a flame and then eventually a bonfire across your marriage. And wick size […]

It all started out so innocently. All I had to do was get the 2-year-old to his first day of preschool with a 2-week-old infant in tow. I’m a bachelor’s educated RN with many years of ICU experience. I’ve managed patient flow. I’ve run ICU codes. A 2-year-old and an infant? Pfft. Easy peasy. What […]

When I was about 8 years old, my father took me to Rockefeller Plaza. I had been allowed to skip school and accompany my father to an early morning business meeting in Midtown. It was a cold February day and I remember being amazed by the sites and sounds of the bustling New York cityscape. […]

I’m going to let you in on a little secret: aging is not kind on a woman’s body. I know, I know. It came as total shock to me, too. Particularly yesterday, when I was standing in the fluorescent lights of a Target dressing room, trying on bathing suits. Bathing suit shopping is hard after […]

When I was fifteen, I volunteered at a local hospital in the Mail and Flowers department. A few times a week, I donned a blue gingham smock and would spend several hours delivering, well, mail and flowers to the patients and families. As I’d make my way through the hospital, the sights and sounds of […]

I am responsible AF. Well, except when it comes to taking care of my friends’ pets. Then all bets are off. I feel as though it should be said that I have zero pet sitting skills. I didn’t own pets as a kid and I was 41 years old when our first family pet joined […]

He climbed up on my lap and nestled his toddler body against mine. As he shifted to get comfortable, my belly shifted, presumably his sister’s first act of defiance against her older brother. His hair was wet and he smelled faintly of baby shampoo and talc. With his pacifier nestled in his mouth, he grinned […]

When I was in fifth-grade, my family and I moved to a far away to a foreign land called Texas. Having grown up in the Northeast, being the daughter of two Yankees who “pahked the cah in Hahvahd yahd,” and suddenly being deposited in the land of big skies, cowboys, and boots was a culture […]

The number one question I get asked as a blogger is how I got started. People are often equal parts amazed and amused to hear that I sort of fell into this gig by accident. Truly, if it weren’t for a friend who recognized my writing skills and some pretty amazing “right place, right time” […]

Well, now, 2016 was quite a year, wasn’t it, bitchachos? And, I don’t know about you, but I feel different. In some respects, a good different. In other ways, not so much. I don’t mind telling you that 2016 changed me. A lot. I am changed professionally. Frankly, I don’t recognize my professional life from […]