“Her hair grew long and knotty, turning gray and full of burrs. Her nails grew sharp, extending inches from the tips of her fingers. She became emaciated, a skeleton of herself in a long, black dress. La Llorona.”
“At night she walks the arroyos, looking for her two drowned sons, crying and wailing for them. If [...]

*Edits added with *s below as I live blog the event.
Finally, finally I am up and running, blogging live from the Martha Stewart Show! It has been quite a morning. Seriously. It’s not my story to tell, but suffice it to say that I am the only one from our group of three to actually [...]

THE BURGER KING (as in, the King of Burgers): Pssssst.  Beth. Beee-eeeeththththth.
ME: Shut up Burger King. Don’t even start. You know we’ve sworn you off in our house. You’re not good for anyone - not my kids, not my ass, and certainly not the planet. So just don’t even start with me, all right? Get [...]

Yesterday was our five year anniversary, mine and Hubby’s. While on our vacation last week we decided to do our celebrating on Friday, our last night at the beach. We had put the kids to bed early and ordered some fancy take-out and spent our evening on the deck listening to the ocean. [...]

It had been a long while since I’d been swimming in the ocean. Last year when we went to the beach I was very pregnant with Robby. Every time a wave would hit me in the stomach I’d just picture him being bopped in the head, so I didn’t end up going very [...]

I rode the train downtown for a doctor appointment yesterday. It had been quite a while since I’d been on a train, and it reminded me of what, I think, is an amazing story from when I lived in Chicago, when I rode the El all the time.
I had gone downtown I think to [...]

I’ll tell you a little secret: I’m not really a baby person. I’m really not. Babies always sort of freaked me out growing up. I guess I didn’t have much experience with them or something, and well, I guess I just didn’t get the whole babies are so great/cute/cuddly thing. [...]