I wrote a long blog post and I hated it. It was too long, too detailed and just too full of words. But this story won’t leave me so it’s gonna be birthed some how. Here’s the short of it. It isn’t earth shattering and there is no transformational moment. But, it happened last […]

Read More Scary Stuff Happens.  Life Goes On.  

Spring Our  new  house is old and the space that once was the dark attic is now converted into our bedrooms.   It’s warm and stuffy upstairs today. We don’t linger up there. The light shoots out through the window shade and points directly down the wooden planks of the hallway.   Evening here has come. […]

Read More Spring In Oak Park

So, yesterday. I was getting my Costco shopping done and checking out when I realized I had forgotten one of the things I originally came for.  (Let’s be honest, my cart was 50% things I did not come for.)  I finished checking out and went to my car to load the groceries before running  back in […]

Read More The Time When That Man Took My Phone

Or, more simply, my daughter’s friend. So this is not the story’s beginning and it’s not the end. It’s just the part that happened at our house  and the part that changed me.    I’m only telling this story from my perspective and no one else’s involved. Not Abbey’s experience and not her friend’s. Just mine. When […]

Read More This Will Be My First Story: My Daughter’s Transgender Friend.