Daily Thoughts
When the Stars Align
When I was a teenager, there were a couple of radio shows I listened to regularly and each included requests and dedications. One was a national program that aired on Sunday mornings, Casey Kasem’s American Top 40; his show featured a long-distance dedication from a…
A Bit of a Throwback
As youngsters, our girls were choosy about the movies they wanted to watch. While many girls their ages were intimately familiar with movies like Frozen and its quite-famous song, Let It Go, our girls were not drawn into the story because they found some of the…
Rap Battles Should Be the Norm
If you follow this blog and my writing here with any regularity, you’ve come across at least a couple of posts referencing the musical, Hamilton. This one will continue with that hyperfocus as my girls have come to refer to it because I have been listening to Ron…
I Tell My Stories
Perhaps I should preface this post by saying that I understand that not everyone appreciates musicals, whether on the Broadway and off-Broadway stages or on the big screen. I am not none of these people. Since my early teens, I have been fully and completely enamored…
A Safe Place in the World
Because I know I can sometimes spend too much time mindlessly scrolling through different social media feeds, I try my best to limit how often I let myself open the different apps on my phone, especially if I’m working on something like writing or if my girls and I…
Still Chasing Monsters Away
Apparently, when I was a little kid going to bed at night, one of my parents—usually my mom—had to come into my room with me, inspect beneath the covers, and smack the bedcovers along the bottom of my bed to kill the lobsters I was convinced were hiding in my bed…
Love Is Seeing Them Smile
I remember when I was growing up there was a syndicated single-panel cartoon titled, Love Is…featuring a young woman and a young man illustrating whatever the simple caption described about love. As I recalled that comic, I looked up its origin and discovered the…
Moments Like These Are Powerful
After what was a considerably busy week for us with us being out of the house just about every day, it was nice to welcome the first of the final two days of this holiday weekend knowing we had nothing on our calendar for the day. I tend to look forward to these kinds…
Joey Doesn’t Share Food
From the first moment the Friends character Joey (played by Matt LeBlanc) first uttered those words—Joey doesn’t share food—my husband and I have used them as a familiar refrain for me. It doesn’t matter if we are out to eat or here at home, or (and maybe especially)…