Not a day goes by that I don’t think of something I wish I could talk to my parents about. I regret not truly thanking them for my life. Literally. And all the opportunities they gave me. I wish I had expressed my gratitude for being good parents, staying together, teaching me right from wrong,…
Erin of is my guest today with a letter to her parents about a recent visit gone a bit awry. If you don’t know Erin, she writes Erin L. Margolin, The road to my writer roots and co-founded The Gay Dad Project, a Website and blog dedicated to families who have a gay parent. Sometimes…
I never knew my grandparents very well. Either set. My last remaining grandparent died when I was in college and I had the great misfortune of having to tell my mother that her mother had passed. It was an awful task. Are your grandparents still alive? Busy mom of three boys, (can you even imagine?)…
I have had the pleasure of meeting Sugar Jones several times and she is what I (and many others) would consider a BIG blogger. She hails from beautiful San Diego and her blog, aptly titled, Sugar in the Raw, is fun, honest, full of great info and insight. Sugar is my guest today with a…
My father was born and raised in Shamrock, a small town 89 miles east of Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle. In its heyday there were 3,778 people living in the once popular stopover on historical Route 66. With the construction of Interstate-40, the town was bypassed and all but forgotten (think of the movie Cars…
…that my sleep patterns would be so completely interrupted. …that I would wipe your snot with the sleeve of my shirt. …that there would be stickers on my living room floor for weeks on end. …that World War III would break out if I offered the “wrong” flavor of juice. …that I would utter the…
It’s going to happen, I thought any day now, he’s going to ask me, “Mommy, where’s your mommy?” and/or, “Where’s your daddy?”. I thought I would be ready. I have thought about it a lot, actually. It weighs on me every day and especially when we look at photos. Lucas knows who my husband’s parents…
Lucky Lucas had two Easter celebrations! His dad took him to the Bay Area to visit his grandparents for the weekend (yes, you read that correctly, I was immersed in me time for the entire weekend!) and had an egg hunt with his cousins and then came home to find an Easter basket full of…
For those of you that don’t know, Eyedews are a refreshing, single use, under-eye rejuvenation treatment, specifically formulated to help you look like you don’t have a two-year old who won’t sleep through the night. They are in a word, AMAZING! This post is for Vlog Talk. Prompt #3). If you went to Blissdom, what…
I am delighted to have Kim of Mama’s Monologues as my guest for Letters For You today. Kim has three boys, a baby on the way and yet still finds time to write from the heart and occasionally enlist her husband in some of the most hilarious vlogs for VlogTalk! Kim is here today with…
