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Yes! Magazine: Living Right on the Wrong Side of Town

I wrote this piece on the recession and how it has affected my family

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Changing How We Mow the Lawn Changed Who We Are

Sometimes a lawn mower can change everything. I always associated nice weather with the deafening “rrrrrrrrrrrr” of lawn mowers.  It’s not a bad sound for most of us; it’s generally something that...

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I’ll Take Your Halloween and Raise You a Thanksgiving

I’m grateful for garden gnomes, cuckoo clocks, climbing trees with gnarled branches, and moss. For coffee and chai, nutmeg and cinnamon. For citron yellow,  magenta, map water blue, chartreuse, and a...

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Get Her Done

I have a complicated and confusing confession to make. And to top it off, it’s couched in a question of sorts. I distrust laziness, yet I am bad at work. I’m a putterer. I don’t find it easy to sit...

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Sleep for the weary/And dreams for us all/Rest your head on a pillow /And...

Sleep for the weary/And dreams for us all/Rest your head on a pillow /And I’ll tell you a tale Oh! An oldie but a goodie. I remember then-kindergartener Zeke walking around slowly on Back to School...

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What Led Me to Having Thanksgiving with Tyranni-Sue at a Mental Hospital

Prologue: I was prepared to post this four days ago, until I got some truly horrible, absolutely devastating and completely unexpected news in the mail, which put me into such a cycle of hopelessness...

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