I should have said no. The PTA form asked for people to fill out a specific portion if you are able to be a room parent. I should have just kept that part blank. I had been a room parent for the last 4 or 5 years so I knew what it entailed. I always had one...
Almost always, that feeling comes: I wish I hadn’t said yes to going out. There’s that voice that tells me I should be putting on my cozies and sitting like a slug on the couch and watching tv with my spouse. It whispers that I will have to talk and be social...
I remember the cigarette stained toilet seat in the bathroom of the cheap hotel and the 5 foot mounds of dirty snow outside. I recall my nostrils freezing the second we stepped outside to get dinner at a greasy bar that ended up having delicious burgers and...
My husband knows that I tell it like it is. If I say something, I mean it. For real. He learned this about me well before we were married. When we were still dating, Valentine’s Day was coming around and he told some people at work that I told him I...
