There’s a room in this place that holds a piece of my heart. It’s the room where I left my middle child on his first day of kindergarten, sitting at a tiny desk, ready to start the rest of his life, while I walked out the door entrusting him to the hands of a woman […]
I had a mother who read to me Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea. Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth; “Blackbirds” stowed in the hold beneath. I had a Mother who read me lays Of ancient and gallant and golden days; Stories of Marmion and Ivanhoe, Which every child has a right to know. […]
It’s coming y’all … that infamous Houston heat has already started making its ghastly appearance, complete with dripping humidity reminiscent of the deepest, darkest corners of the rainforest. There are mornings when I walk out my door, kids in tow, and feel like I’ve walked straight into Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, “The horror! The horror!” […]
“Go on, choose a line and get in place,” I said, giving his hibiscus-clad bottom a gentle pat. His little feet ambled over to where the lines of children stood by the pool, waiting their turn to dive in and swim across. “One, two, three, GO!” punctuated the air at regular intervals with the assistance […]
Dear Harvey Apartment, Tonight is our last night to sleep here. Tomorrow we will fall asleep in our home for the first time in 6 months since Hurricane Harvey turned our lives upside down. What’s that? You thought you were our home? Well, in a way you were. You took us in when we had […]
“As any half-awake materialist knows – that which you hold, holds you.” – Tom Robbins I filled two trash bags with stuff. They were not just those tidy little kitchen-sized bags with the orange tying pull handles, permeated with the stench of Febreeze; these were gigantic, black contractor bags, the sort you pack tight with […]
I’m going to be honest here. I’m a little hesitant to write this post because I feel like I’m letting all of Houston in on a well-kept secret, but I’m going to anyway. Because I love y’all, here it goes…. Disneyland is just as awesome as Disney World. Okay, there it is. I said it. […]
Let me just preface this with an apology. I’m sorry you’re reading this. If you’re reading this, chances are, your home was flooded by Harvey or the recent reservoir release, or someone you know and love was flooded by one of the aforementioned events. So you’ve experienced this catastrophe, and whether you’re ready for […]
We bought our house in Meyerland two and a half years ago…two months before the Memorial Day flood. We were moving back to Houston from Friendswood and had just put our home there on the market, so we weren’t really looking at anything seriously for fear of jinxing our home sale out there. And then […]
The burn of chlorine filled my nostrils as I was slapped in the face with an oversized purple pool noodle. I let out a giant roar of retaliation and my oldest squealed as I pursued him across the pool towards the deep end, to a chorus of cheers from my two younger children, bobbing in […]
