This post published earlier and then I wrecked it all up and it disappeared. I am messy in more ways than one. Here it is again, hopefully to stay. Thank you to those of you who have already emailed me, messaged me, and found other ways to comment when it was gone. I apologize to…
Monthly Archives: January 2010
If You Give a Girl New Cabinet Knobs…
She’ll take the old ones off. When she’s up close to the old ones, she’ll notice how dirty the white cabinets are. She’ll spend 25 minutes searching for the brand new box of Mr. Clean Magic Erasers she bought last week. She’ll stop and tweet that she can’t find them. Then she’ll find them. And…
Tank Filling
Many years ago, I sat with my mother on a day she was feeling deflated, uninspired, drained of motivation and energy. She said to a teenage version of myself that she needed her tank filled. All I knew to do in that moment was to give her a hug. Then we sat and talked about…
