I never thought I would be attracted to a fifty year old man. I shared this secret with my husband. My husband didn’t judge. Even when I said, “That fifty year old man is hot,” my husband half-smiled and gave me a nod. I think he may have a man crush on this fifty year old too. This man is not only cool, but he is a bad ass. He’s the type of man who can wear sunglasses [...]
November 2009
This year I am grateful for a bowl of milk and Honey-Nut Cheerios. If you study the box, the bright yellow bee is hugging the little cream colored hole tight, afraid that it might escape. I don’t know from what exactly, but maybe it is this act of hugging depicted on the box that makes it sell off the shelves of the grocery aisle. As I lift the spoon filled with Cheerios to my mouth, I am [...]
My husband isn’t afraid of fingernail polish. We have a nail salon set up in our bathroom every two weeks. My daughter opens the bathroom cabinets and gathers the nail polish remover, cotton balls, and a couple of bottles of nail polish. She sits on the ledge of our bathroom tub and her father, yes, folks, her father paints her nails. He paints with a quiet focused diligence and she smiles in a perfect grin. She shows her nails [...]
Sometimes everyone should spray paint their hair pink. My daughter loves the color pink, everything from pink pajamas to cotton candy. I think she would eat pink if she could. While we were at the school carnival this weekend, she ran to the booth to get her hair painted pink. There was no hesitation and certainly no worry about how massive amounts of pink would come out of her hair. She was so happy she couldn’t even get [...]
