I have been on a ridiculous losing streak of late. Actually, my whole family has been on one great big losing streak. I’m a fairly competitive person — strike that, I am a really competitive person. That competitive gene has been passed down, for better or worse (lately worse, much worse) to my kids. I [...]
Editor’s Note: Gabby Creery will perform her one-woman play Fore/closure in Art House Productions’ So Low Theater Festival tomorrow, Sept. 29 at 6:30 pm and Sunday, Sept. 30 at 7 pm. I haven’t shared the full story of how my family and I landed in foreclosure. I have alluded to tax problems but after having [...]
My year doesn’t begin at midnight when the giant disco ball drops from the sky in Times Square on New Year’s Eve. No, my New Year kicks off on mom time – and for most moms, that’s sometime around the first day of school. I have started my fall prep, filling out the mountain of [...]
Over the last few months, many acquaintances of my friends and even a few strangers have reached out to me. Through emails, Facebook and the occasional conversation, we’ve managed to cover a truly broad range of topics. We’ve discussed everything from foreclosure (of course), AA and the adult children of alcoholics to cancer, financial difficulties, [...]
I have taught swimming lessons on and off for the better part of 20 years now and for all of those years there has been one fact that has continued to amaze me. When left to their own devices, a person who is truly and deeply afraid of the water will instinctually do all the [...]
I am my own worst enemy. Ok, so I’ve said it – now where the heck do I go from here? There comes a point when your world comes crashing down around you when you have to admit this one simple fact to yourself. I don’t make choices. I live in constant fear of making [...]
I had a rather disturbing yet fascinating epiphany this week. The foreclosure of my house is a symptom of a greater problem. No, symptom isn’t quite the right word for it because symptom just seems to make the foreclosure of my home sound like a sniffle, or a cough, even a minor hiccup and that [...]
I have a friend from high school who recently wrote to me from Cabo. Through the magic of Facebook he had found me and had kept up with my story, and when he needed to share his own tale, he wrote to me—from Cabo. This friend had a small business or two out in California [...]
Do you remember how you discovered that Santa wasn’t real? There has been a raging debate in a local parenting group that I am in about Mr. Claus. Questions have been thrown out and every parent seems to have a different take on the subject. As concerned parents, we are wondering: Are we lying to [...]
I had an all too familiar conversation on the phone just now with a good friend who owns and runs Basic Builders, a small family kitchen remodeling company. We were both lamenting that it’s Christmas, the time of year that we really need a little extra work and a little extra money, but all the [...]
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