Writer, mom, widow, clinical psychologist.
Hello from the Other Side: Revisiting the Playing Field
This past fall I sat in the bleachers and watched a prep school freshmen boys’ soccer game. Late afternoon sunshine slanted through the red and orange maples on the school grounds, spreading a warm glow across the playing field. The players, young, strong and healthy…
Tummies run in the family on my mother’s side. Not cute, slightly rounded tummies, but enormous fleshy mounds reminiscent of the Venus of Willendorf. I imagine that in some Eastern European village hundreds of years ago…
On a too-warm day in late May, I waited in a Maryland Department of Motor Vehicles branch office holding my dead husband’s license plates in my lap. Returning these plates was the last in a series of steps I had taken to give back his car and stop the monthly lease and insurance…