Share/Save There is just the tiniest hint of fall in the air today. You can feel it in the soft whisper of a breeze that tickles the back of your neck, in the cool caress of evening as the nights begin to chill and deepen, the smell of cinnamon and nutmeg that lingers around the [...]
Share/SaveCar rides with my kids are rarely silent (unless they are all sleeping). Usually my small delinquents’ voices fill the car with squawking, squealing and squabbling. A raging battle over territory complete with pinches, pokes, licks, taunts, jabs and screams has ensued for almost the entire summer between the older and the younger siblings; every [...]
Share/SaveOne recent morning my sleepy-eyed husband rolled out of bed at the crack of dawn half-awake, half-asleep to walk our impatient dog. The poor guy was completely unaware that he was in for a rather rude awakening. Our neighbor cheerfully greeted my husband and our pooch at our gate with a copy of a local [...]
Share/SaveI came home from work one day two weeks ago and the power was out. I’m guessing that those of you who live in or around Jersey City are not surprised in reading this. Many, many residents lost their power last week here in JC. But this was after the heat wave and the mass [...]
Share/SaveDo you remember 13? I remember 13; the drama, the angst, the bullies, the heartache, the friends, the love and of course the HORMONES! Ah yes, I remember 13. I remember flying so high one day because I was “in” and crashing the next because I was “out.” I remember being picked on and tormented. [...]
Share/SaveI’m dreaming of the beach; preferably an empty, isolated beach with just me, my blanket and a long expanse of warm, white sand. I want to feel the sun beating down on my bare back and the sand wiggling between my toes. I want to hear the waves gently lapping against the shore and nothing [...]
Share/SaveConfession: I am an utter and completely hopeless romantic. I read the Twilight series not once but twice (I can just hear the collective gasp and the loss of all of my credibility). At heart, I’m a girl who longs to be rescued. I want Prince Charming to come crashing in on his noble white [...]
Share/SaveNot too long ago I wrote a blog on “Seeking Joy.” At the time just the bare mention of the word “joy” brought me to tears. I couldn’t write or say the word without throwing myself into a deep depression. So I simply avoided “joy.” Somewhere in all the turmoil of the kids, the foreclosure, [...]
Share/SaveThere are floods and then there are FLOODS. Last week, we had a FLOOD. There was water on every floor, in every room; there was water virtually everywhere in the house. I ran out of buckets, pots and pans to hold it all in. At one point, I sat myself down on my basement floor [...]
Share/SaveI locked myself in my room for a week and cried when I found out that I was pregnant with my second set of twins. The news came as a complete shock to me in my 20th week of my second pregnancy. I had been going to my OB/GYN for the last four months of [...]
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