March 6 Mrs: (Exasperated by the A.D.D.) Mr: It’s been 11 yrs. Mrs: (Thinking no kidding.) Mr: You should be used to it by now. Mrs: *Disbelief* March 20 Mr: I realized you have your own love language. You love me by serving [not with words or gestures of affection]. When you make me food… Read More The Things You Lose in Marriage
I was chopping vegetables for dinner, silent tears running down my face. I had just gotten off the phone with my sister. It was cancer. She was terrified and feeling alone, despite the love I tried to pour through the phone. All I could do was listen and witness her pain. Be a witness to… Read More Witness
Seven-and-a-half ~ Yes, we all have our job. Yours is to study, mine is to cook and teach you, Daddy’s is to make money. Huh. I have the hardest job of all. ————— Umma, what is the bottom number? The lowest number….the floor? *Smile* It’ll be a negative number, right? Way below zero. Only God… Read More Words Between Mom and Boy, Part 3
The one thing she wasn’t known for was a beautiful face but people – men in particular – were arrested by her presence, charisma, eloquence, and intellect. Cleopatra was captivating with a beauty only she could claim. What is the greatest compliment you have received as a woman or paid one? Though I have never… Read More The Woman You Praised
Night has pressed her hand to your eyes. You fly dragons over magic rivers and lead clone armies through red dust of Mars. I follow your brows, lashes, these long limbs, hands that build Lego tales and castles, draw warbirds, roll out sixteenth triplets; these hands feel older now. Whom will they hold? I watch… Read More You Didn’t Know I Kissed You Tonight
I deserve flak from my female cohorts. As a young adult, I never got the I-AM-WOMAN-HEAR-ME-ROAR hullabaloo. Why Oprah and devotees, TV shows, and pop culture rattled on about the woman with all the balls up in the air, exhausted in the attempt to satisfy diverse roles. Then I got married. And became a mother.… Read More Men and Women: Another Difference
Dinner one night, and Tiger Dad pushes wife about the schooling. Husband: Does he know what nouns, prepositions, verbs are? Wife: Honey, you know he’s been learning the definitions. He’ll understand better as he gets older. He’s only seven. *Pause* Wife: Wait. Do YOU know what they are? Funny look. PAUSE. Husband: I know adverbs.… Read More Tiger Dad and Tiger Wife
Apart from the wondrous enlightened few, we have quite a worried bunch here. We bite our lip peering into a distant tomorrow, fret over things we can’t control. You can check out the confessions on this post if you missed them. We fear the ground giving way under our feet, of being cut off from… Read More Shame On Us
What is UP with the drama? Look, I don’t need any. See me over here sitting quietly on the end of the girly, feminine spectrum? I hate shopping, don’t do eyeliner, clip these nails the moment they’re long enough to go. If you want to torture me, force me to endure a bridal or baby… Read More I May Be a Man
What color is make-believe, you ask? It is the color of time that never runs out, the sun streaming over a land where children are kings and queens, It is the heart of Middle-earth The color of Cinderella’s tears, the color of beauty who loved the beast Pinocchio’s lies and the virtue of knights, the… Read More The Color of Make-Believe
A Holistic Journey 