Where Is The Love
A terrible tragedy is happening. After seven school shootings this year alone, we’re getting desensitized. We weep, offer obligatory thoughts and prayers, but the mind-numbing shock is gone. A defense…
Teenagers Are Humans Too
The moment your kid is tall enough to look you square in the eye, is the minute you stop seeing eye to eye. Mirror, mirror on the wall, I've become…
When You’re Married A Billion Years, And Still Dancing
On Sep. 23, Val & Ken celebrate 22 years of wedded bliss (oxymoron). We’ve loved and hated. Fought and made up. Created life and mourned death. He’s seen the ice-queen…
Good Grief! Surviving The Loss of a Parent
On March 2, 2015 [two years ago today] Dad departed this life for the eternal country club in the sky. We trust it’s divine, because members move heaven and earth…
Why Are Women So Hard On Ourselves?
Sometimes I swear like a MF trucker. No surprise there, but I’m caught off-guard when it’s directed at me. I call myself an idiot when I’m absent-minded. I’m a cow…
20 Years To Life
The judge asked, “Do you take him, And commit to being a wife?” “I do”, I decree, “He’s the one for me.” I’m doing 20 years to life. The honeymoon…
Dear Abby: Welcome To Chapter Two!
I’ve been serenading you with “You Are My Sunshine” from the moment you were born. You harmonized back with “Hey, I just met you and this is crazy, but my…
Why The Hell Can’t I Sleep?
1. Chip crumbs keep cutting into my skin. 2. I heard a noise and must quickly decide which household weapon to wield. Do I have enough time to plug in…
Daddy’s Girl
I love my parents equally the same, My Dad was the one who chose my name. He didn’t know then he’d only have daughters, Girls with parallel traits of their…
