Really. I think you should take a seat. Sit down with me. I am not even going to get into how different “please, sit down” is from “please sit down”: the latter being an authoritative command whereas I hope you can sense my entreaty comes with courtesy, humility, gentleness, and empathy. We are both so…

When I go for walks with my two younger children, my four year old is careful to warn me: “Make sure you don’t step on any leaf turtles, Mommy!” A leaf turtle is a familiar member of our family, but perhaps not yours. Tumbling on the road alongside our feet, lifted up and twirled in…

Have you heard the one where an introvert walks into a bar? As she sits alone watching the theater of people talking, laughing, and mingling, a man sidles up next to her and asks if he can buy her a drink. She says ‘sure’ and nods to the bartender who picks up her glass and…

This post is cross-posted to my other blog, across between and beyond. Read here or on my other site. to the friend I lost We met in preschool. I came home one day and told my mother I wanted a playdate with “the girl with one eye.” You wore an eyepatch because of a required…

There were no more tears in him. His eyes gleamed like mirrors of the moon, shining with thousands of years’ worth of stored-up grief. And I let him cry. And then, just as I was washing the blood from his face and chest and telling him everything was going to be all right, I realized…

I’m a serial dater. Into my fourth decade, I’ve never been married and I’ve accumulated a large quantity of first dates in my life bucket. Though some blossomed into relationships, many, well most, did not and, as with anyone who has dated enough, there have been some interesting experiences. There was the guy who kept…

I went to an Easter brunch with my mother and kids about a month ago. As we were leaving, we bumped into old family friends of my parents. I had been a classmate of their younger son and their elder son is about the same age as my older brother. As such, we often spent…