ON SUNDAYS, WHEN OUR KIDS WERE YOUNG we always sat near the front of the church. It’s a vulnerable place for sure, vain-bound me struggling to think more about the sermon than the back of my head where my hair, due to some kind of birth defect, tends to do a stand up colicky thing. […]
Editor’s Note: Kate James has written a vibrant memoir about her son’s battle with heroin, and her own experience during that time. This is an important book and we highly recommend it. Kate generously allowed us to use an excerpt today as her book launches! Few parents can say the word heroin. It took me […]
I just bought a new dress. I don’t like it. It plain doesn’t look good on me, and I wore it already so there’s no returning it. I thought it would be great because it has a fun collar with loose ties and then cuts a little shorter in front, just below the knees, and angles longer […]