Momlettes

What if there was an opportunity Tucked right inside all or nothing. The one that invites you to Question, ponder and think. About options, alternatives and ideas You hadn’t considered. If you played there for a while. What would it look like? Not jet black or ghost white. Perhaps there’d be a warm... Sign in to see full entry.

I’ll admit that going to this concert was more for my daughter than for me. This year a new girl who transferred into the school turned Jessie on to the Beatles. She’s been hooked since September. She listens to a different CD as she falls asleep every night. She knows all the names of the albums,... Sign in to see full entry.

What am I allowing when I allow? The pain of releasing? The ease of breathing when I don’t hold my breath? Help from others when I feel stuck and unable to move forward or belief that I have the strength to do anything difficult? Is it the tears that I am to allow? The constant stream that seems to... Sign in to see full entry.

The letting go It’s endless Bottomless Heartbreaking. So many tears Don’t seam to wash away anything But yesterdays make up Staining the present, with the past. It so universal. And at the same, time so rare. To love, then loose. to death, to circumstance to life. But the love See the beauty in it... Sign in to see full entry.

What have you done in your life that at one time you balked at? Marriage? Children? Owning a home? Look where you are standing today. Is it further than you ever thought? Is it better than last year at this time? Do you only look back on New Years Eve, or are you aware of the passing minutes of the... Sign in to see full entry.

No one knows the hurt that lies beyond someones eyes. I have a friend who swears each of us has a story that could break your heart. It’s those that have more than one story that could bring you to tears that begin to exhibit the Ronko bunching bag from my youth. The one that looked like Bozo or... Sign in to see full entry.

What is it about a big change in our life that works to drain our last ounce of energy? I’ve seen the effects a divorce has had on friends. They come to a place where there is just no more fight in them. One more meeting with the lawyer, a tiny negotiation over a piece of furniture and they could go... Sign in to see full entry.

Sharing one of my favorite memories with you.... As the casket rolled past the two of us, I remember my daughter Grace pushing a tear against gravity, back towards my eye. I held her in my arms, wishing I could fall apart in someone else’s, when all at once, this moment of sweetness stopped time. My... Sign in to see full entry.

Somewhere out there my girls have touched folks they will never meet. Part of them will be a part of someone else. Not that what they give is a necessary life giving resource, yet they took time and gave it life, beauty and strength. In just 18 months they are able to grow 10 inches of healthy,... Sign in to see full entry.

My almost 16 year old is in a quandary, she needs to ask a boy to a dance. She falls in the trap a lot of beautiful girls find themselves in. Cute enough for everyone to believe she has a boyfriend already, yet her parents don’t allow dating till she’s 16, we’re squares that way. So now she finds... Sign in to see full entry.