My Husband Has a Crush on a Bald Frenchman
I’m not a jealous person by nature but sometimes at night when it’s time to go to bed, instead of following me into the boudoir, my husband, hypnotized by the glow of his laptop murmurs, “I’ll be...
View ArticleThe Many Moms of Maya by Steven Friedman
Maya’s had many moms even before Verna died just a little over two years ago. Out of necessity, both Verna and I needed help because Maya was born six days after Verna’s first cancer diagnosis....
View ArticleMonkey See, Monkey Poo by Teri Stevens
It’s a good thing there are three toilets in our home. At any given time there might be three small bums occupying each one. You see we have twin girls who are three-and-a-half and a son who is four....
View ArticleThe Change-of-life Baby by Paula Chapman
Buying a pregnancy test at age 47 was not in my plans. I was one and done, as they say. When the clerk at Walgreens asked if I needed help finding something in the store, I choked and asked where...
View ArticleNot Cheating Death By Steven Friedman
We cannot escape death. But should one family have to endure multiples death in less than six months? There is a couple at the retirement community where I work who lost two daughters earlier this...
View ArticleTravelling Light by Claire Hennessy
I have always loved travelling. It’s the packing I hate. What to take, what to leave behind? Will it be hot or cold, dry or rainy? Packing when I was single was bad enough, but when I had my first...
View ArticleValentine Surprise by Claire Hennessy
My first Valentine’s Day with my husband was a rather strange affair, made all the stranger by the fact that I hadn’t seen him for over 30 years! We were high school sweethearts, but had lost touch....
View ArticleB is for Bug
Claire’s recording of Bug Poem (download) A British divorcee called Claire Sent an email one night for a dare To her first love at school Who’d been horny and cool And no man since then could compare....
View ArticleD is for Dog
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney My husband and I are cat people, but our daughters failed to get the memo. Despite a menagerie of two felines and an assortment of rodents, the lobbying for a dog...
View ArticleIn One Ear and Out to Space
I feel like I’ve had the following conversation with my husband a zillion times.The situation: We are meeting at 1 p.m. on Thursday at our son’s school for a parent-teacher conference. I need to BART...
View ArticleE is for Empty Nest
Welcome to the Write On, Mamas! We are a writing group based in the San Francisco North Bay area. We will have 25 Mamas and one Papa writing on a different letter of the alphabet during the A-Z Blog...
View ArticleY is for Yia Yia
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney At her wake the other day, the priest’s wife, the presvytera, said to me “She was an angel. She was so soft-spoken and sweet.” I smiled and thought, yes, she was...
View ArticleNest
There are signs of new life in the empty nest. For one thing, Ally has blown back in for the summer from a year teaching abroad in Spain. We don’t see much of her, but we can follow the debris trail...
View ArticleSummer Camp – While Nick Was Gone
A few years ago, while my 10 year-old-son spent two weeks away at a summer camp in the Sierras, I wrote a log of my feelings and activities: Day 5 I ache with the missing of my Nick. The other parents...
View Article(A Glorious) Change of Plans
“So I’ve got this crazy idea,” he says to me, twenty minutes before we need to leave our house in Milwaukee to catch our flight. We’re on our way to South Carolina for a week with some family, and we...
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