I don’t often swoon here. I do a great deal of processing, both to continue my own healing and to hopefully help others who have joined what San Francisco writer and new loss mom Katie Coyle beautifully deemed our “Dark Sisterhood.” Weaving … Continue reading
Welcome to my new site! I have been working behind the scenes with my talented friend Leslie Forman to relaunch this platform for my professional work as well as my message. Both have evolved over these five years of posting. … Continue reading
Soon after moving to Chile in 2011, I wrote about Culture Shock. I told you all then that I’d have to report on the final stage, Reverse Culture Shock, once we returned to the U.S. Well, that time has come. … Continue reading
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” —Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell While we wait to meet our daughter, I’ve spent time with the meaty novels and collections I’ve been meaning to read. After relying on memoirs of survival this past … Continue reading
The morning after Mother’s Day is harder than Mother’s Day itself was. That’s a surprise. Maybe that’s because Mother’s Day itself was a Sunday. That means Ryan was home and we took Ruby out for some tennis balls in the … Continue reading