It’s 5:45 AM and Poppy is quietly standing by my bedside. She stares at me, like the girl from The Ring, until I wake to her presence. I get so...

Mom let the freak flag fly the day I was born. All natural, no meds, completely appalling in the early 80s. She gave birth to my older sister under Twilight...

The first sad moment I recall is the stain. My dad and brother were carrying boxes and my mom opened the door. There was a sea of black, greasy, shiny...

Moments before Rob caught this pic with Bruno, I was trying to read a book on my Kindle app, resting my tweaked back, when both my girls wanted to lay...

I promise I’m not going to keep talking about how we’re all sick, even though it’s really hard not to talk about it because that’s the only thing happening in...

“Cherish every moment, it goes by so fast.” Not fast enough, honestly. It’s a sweet and well meaning turn of phrase, but it stresses some of us out a little....