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This is now officially the first month in two years that my family has not been depending on food stamps to feed ourselves. The moment that I realized that I no longer qualified for these benefits was incredibly triumphant for me. Within the same moment of celebrating I also felt so incredibly thankful. I have [...]
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As soon as I found out about getting one’s hair straightened out at a salon I was intrigued. (And by “intrigued” I really mean, “I SO WANTED IN!”) My friend Paz was the first person I know to get it done and it looked amazing on her. It’s been one of those “when I can [...]
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It’s impossible to even try to capture the bliss of our weekend. It was, hands down, one of the best I have ever had. Sunday, in particular was the ultimate day for us. It was one of those perfect Fall days in Philadelphia – the kind of day where you could totally put on a [...]
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I would like to pretend that I was incredibly calm and mellow when I heard that Vicki, Debbi, and Sussana were about to walk up the stairs. And I don’t mean they were about to walk up to the stage. I mean they were walking up to the little atrium area of the theatre where [...]
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I know that I am not unique when it comes to being a girl child of the 80′s that carried a torch for The Bangles. They were beautiful, they had great hair, they had cool clothes, they sang songs that I could sing along too and (hurrah!) their songs were on the radio all the [...]
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I was trying to think of a way to describe the kind of taffy-pulling-super-stretched-every-which-way my days are going lately. Then I looked over at my coffee. It’s my 2nd bowl of coffee (you know, one of those giant mugs that are essentially a bowl with a handle) but I poured it at 11:00am. It is [...]
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In May of 2005 I joined my first on-line forum to talk to and learn from other women trying to become mothers in unconventional ways. I sat and looked at the screen asking for a username for twenty minutes. A wave of anxiety washed over me and I knew that I could not, would not [...]
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Ok fine. I’m not getting married. I’m getting bummed. In addition to not having a sidekick to my life I also don’t have all the COOL STUFF that a person gets when they find and marry their side kick. I routinely discover, when asking a friend about a cool gadget or appliance that it was [...]
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It’s honestly been one of the most forward-moving weeks I have ever had. I am used to weeks of highs that either slowly fade back down to reality or come swiftly crashing down. But so far I have been floating and flapping my wings so fast and with such force that I really seem to [...]
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