Tommy is a fantastic musical based off the album by The Who. We saw it for the first time in 1995 during our honeymoon in New York. Being huge musical theater fans, we purposely planned to take our honeymoon 2 months after our actual wedding so that our trip would coincide with the national tour…

Experiencing a betrayal is like being skinned alive. That is all.

I’m just back from a long walk.  Alone, except for my friend’s dog, Chloe (who I call Clarissa). My cluttered mind is a jumble of overlapping thoughts and pictures that make me want to scream into the air.  Mindful of innocent bikers and walkers along the popular W&OD Trail, I, instead, die silently on the…

My morning started early, 7 am, with a firm hand on my shoulder. It was my husband telling me it was time to wake up to run. I put my hand up to say five more minutes but knew that was a lie the moment I did it so I pried my eyes open and…

As I approached my teens, I looked down at my knees and I was filled with shame. My knees were rough and dark. All those years, tromping around the desert behind my house, had taken its toll and no amount of scrubbing could lighten or soften them. I got banged up and dirty on an…

It was 1985 and my senior year of high school. Ever since I had seen Purple Rain for the first time the year before, and at least six more times after that, I knew I wanted to perform Apollonia 6’s act in our school’s Senior Variety Show. I convinced two friends and we practiced the…

Back in the day, when kids used to play outside until sundown, I had many adventures. Thinking about them now reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where the senior citizens revert to kid age when they sneak out to play ‘kick the can’. The games were simple and used more imagination than actual props….

My daughter was about 3 years when she got her first real dose of my brother, her uncle. Of course, he teased her mercilessly. He talks quickly, loudly, and laughs uproariously — often at the expense of someone else. Because I grew up with him, I had much thicker skin than my 3 year old….