It had been a lovely night. The invitation to a potluck meal hosted by a circle of friends I distantly orbit was a nice change of pace.   ...

My phone was vibrating on the nightstand. An almost silent alarm, it turns out, I didn't need. I was already awake and squeezing into ...

She was going on about something with the level of sustained excitement parents find easy to ignore. I was folding laundry. And...

My dog isn't territorial. Or this is what I thought, anyway, when I fogged up the name on my virtual Dog Sitting shingle, burnished i...

I had been clapping in the wrong places. I had let go of my pent up breath at all the wrong times. Shouting support to the wrong kids. ...

The car passed me with an eerie silence. The force of my breath and the beat of my heart made more noise sluicing through the carpet of ...

We have rules in our house. Of course we do. Our rules range from the Set in Stone kind -- the THOU MUST BRUSHEST THY TEETH TWICE A DA...

'Round about last week or so … maybe earlier, I can't remember, exactly since I didn't write it down ... I resolved to change....

It was just your typical Tuesday: The house was humming along in all of its usual disharmonies: the washer was spinning, the dryer was...

It is another morning in paradise. My husband switches on the TV and returns to stirring eggs in a pan. The noise comforts him over the ...