i think of my life sometimesin the context of Tswift lyrics:“we never had a shotgun shot in the dark” to“we are a shot in the darkest dark” to“august sipped away like a bottle of wine –’cause you were never mine”yet, look – here you are next to meon the couch having coffee every morninghere are your...

Getting older, and watching my parents and grandparents age, is incredibly hard. I’ve always been very aware of my age and the passing of time. These days it feels like time is flying by so much faster than I want it to; I want it to slow down. I want to be able to appreciate and...

I hate authority. I absolutely hate it. The fact that I have a boss is one of the worst things in my entire life. It doesn’t even matter who the boss is. The boss I have now has her Jekyll and Hyde moments… or hours, or days… But overall, she’s a nice, pleasant, funny woman. I...

About a year and a half ago my parents sold the house that I grew up in. It wasn’t just the house that I grew up in. It’s the house where my sister, and then many years later, my daughter, were brought home to sleep in a crib within walls that had already seen the beginnings...

I’m not a lucky kind of person. When I was younger, I used to go to Foxwoods to play BINGO quite often. I loved the whole experience of it – waiting in line to get my cards, then going over to the two-dollar dobber store and picking out which color I wanted (usually pink or green),...