Dear Kids, It is almost 8 pm on a cold Wednesday evening in January. I am sitting in the kitchen typing on the laptop to the hum of the dryer in the basement tumbling a load of white dish towels that I bleached clean this afternoon. Please know that when your mother was 33 years […]

Dear Kids, Once a year I pull the short straw and I take all six of you to the doctor’s office for flu shots. This year, we ran into a sweet older woman in the public restroom while everyone emptied their bladders full of procrastination. “I’m not sure how it happened,” she said grabbing her […]