Tag Archive: longreads

To Everything I’ve Thrown Away: I Promise To Love You Now

Instead of tossing aside, tend to it. You loved it once, love it again. Love it more than you thought you ever could. Life is not disposable. Stop discarding what becomes tiresome. Everything… Continue reading

The Broken Teacher: Bullying From The One You’d Least Expect

Last week my second born, Monkey, came home from school deflated, again. I saw the pain in his eyes as he quietly told what had transpired. I listened as my heart grew heavy, and while he recounted his… Continue reading

So You Want To Borrow Money? What Left Me Lending My Soul Instead: A Window Into A Career That Consumed Me

Wake up. Open eyes. blink off the urge to drift back into the dreamland where I was sprawled out on a beach towel in the tropics somewhere, writing an email and looking into… Continue reading

What If I Told You, I KNOW?

There are some things you come to know in this life that are so big, so universe-altering, that you find yourself wishing somedays that you could go back to a time before you… Continue reading

A Former Mortgage Pro’s 5 Tips for Having Your Dream Home and Living Your Dream Life

With a decade of my life, and thousands upon thousands of hours of experience in this area, I thought you, my readers may find my point of view of some interest.  I offer these tips without… Continue reading

An Open Letter To Anyone Who Has Ever Thought It A Nuisance: I’m Not Sorry

  Why would I apologize to you? For loving my children. For being proud of them. For being the most stunning creatures I’ve ever laid eyes on. For being the best, more than I… Continue reading

Ex-Husbands: 10 Years in a Box. The Soldier Who Chose Honor Over Family

When I open this box I remember a story. It goes like this.. Once upon a time, There was a boy and a girl who fell in love. Puppy love, some said. The girl… Continue reading

Talk Is Cheap. But for the record, My kid is better than YOURS

  The other day I promised my boys I would let them each take a free trial class of their choice to decide what sport/activity they might like to participate in now that… Continue reading

So what if I am Fat? I told her She was too.

You can’t take it with you. But my oh my, do we ever. We take the labels, the tags, the comments and the opinions. We take the jokes, the remarks, the innocent and intended as playful,… Continue reading

If You Want A Real Friend, Put on your Shoes.

A good friend walks by your side. Keeps your pace. Not in front, and not behind. Because its in those steps that are out of sync and independent, where you both will learn too late… Continue reading