For fourteen years, this dog has witnessed every word I’ve written or struggled to write. When Cynthia Newberry Martin invited me to write about one of
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What Nadia Wanted
Her name was not Nadia which means hope or desire. She was named for a mythical bird whose feet never touch the ground. Her privacy is
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One Thing
“He never knew when it was coming.” I learned last week that there is one thing about me my husband would change if he could. Not
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Life Happens
“It was amazing how you could get so far from where you’d planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.” (Sarah Dessen,
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Monday Letters
It’s five o’clock on Monday morning and my mother sits in bed, knees up, a pad against her thighs, her second cup of coffee steaming within
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To Love, Anniversaries, and Burps in the Night
On February 2, 2012 my husband and I hung side by side at the start of the zip line at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.
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Intervention
I don’t know what kind of bird this is, I don’t know its sex. All I know is that for five days it occupied my backyard,
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Love, A La Mode
When I moved from the East Coast to San Diego in the spring of 2002, I found myself a stranger in a place that felt like
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Drinking Lessons
The distiller and I are sitting across from each other in the swelter of a Denver June afternoon, three tiny unlabeled bottles of bourbon lined up
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Reconstruction Day
On Good Friday last year, my step-daughter checked into the hospital for the second phase of post-mastectomy reconstruction. As we packed to go help her through
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