Category: Parenting

First Sleepover~ “one” becomes “two”

My son isn’t sleeping under the same roof as me, and I feel a great dis-ease. My heart presses against my ribs searing my skin attempting the impossible– to reach him. And I wonder, How will I breathe when he is gone for good? (to college, to his own life, under another roof with his…

September 28, 2009
Housewife

“I sound like a housewife. I think I’m a housewife.” Michelle Shocked, Anchorage by Kelly Salasin This is the moment that I’m coming out of the closet and admitting that: I, Kelly Salasin, once a wild thing, a world traveler, a self-proclaimed feminist at 12, a careerist even younger and a lifelong liberalist, admit that…

September 25, 2009

First Sleepover~ “one” becomes “two”