Go West! To Western Pennsylvania, that is. Chester and I started our journey to Lake City, PA after rush hour on Friday morning. It was part one of a 4-day affair. Friday, May 5 It's raining, it's pouring but a girl still needs her coffee. We stop at Davy's Hot Dogs in Mount Arlington, a kitschy-styled Swiss chalet, just …
right here, next to me
There are some days, even now nearly four years since my Dad died when I find myself thinking he is still alive. It is a fleeting moment, lasting thirty seconds or less. It lingers in the air like smoke from a snuffed out candle. Sunday morning, not quite 2 AM, an evening in with the …
my two year absence
A lot can happen in two years. A lot did happen in two years. There were a handful of hypnotic eye-opening experiences in India, as well as a a slightly disturbing observation in the duty free shop in Qatar. The stories start here. I came home with a new mindset and a plan to make some serious …
the secret of life…
Best friends, you can never have too many of them in your lifetime. And rest assured that you will have many. It's like that poem that has circled mailboxes and inboxes for decades, detailing the cycles of friendship and life, about how and why people shuffle in and out of it. As the words go: …
repercussions
numb, stoic, empty that's how i feel. lost, confused trying to make sense of overwhelming every day chaos times two. foolish, i believed caring for my mom would prepare me for right now. impossibly not. back then dad and i had to learn to be close, friends. i didn't count on that dynamic changing so …
Hero Mom In Memoriam
Brooklyn Blaze Takes 5
Newborn
Pride, for a dear friend Chasing a dream for a child. With no man in sight. Solo parenting? No doubt it's a life challenge But it can be done. Is she strong enough? That's the real question, isn't it? Here's where love steps in.
