story of my life - She Laughs at the Days

Lost in the Woods

The past 3 years have been witness to a slow forgetting of who I am. Or maybe more accurately, who I wanted […]

2000 When Aaron asked me to marry him, he did it three times. (I wrote about the first time here.) He says […]

When I was younger I went to one of those church leadership types of schools that had no grades and was basically […]

Well, we moved out of our house last week. And by we I mean the kids and I, and a ton of […]

A few weeks ago I went up to L.A. to help Brenda with Bug’s Black Kitty birthday party, and to make good […]

I let the tears flow, under the cover of darkness, while I lay on the girl’s bed listening to them pray. Aaron’s […]

She describes the scene to me over the phone and in my minds eye I can see it, the gleeful, almost boyish […]

I lost a paycheck, the one dated for January 1st that he handed me, along with a bunch of receipts as I […]

All morning, whenever I sit still for her, Little is making me a princess. She inserts hair pins at random, and brushes […]

photo by aparejador– Used under CC licence Sometimes when I’m hurtling down the freeway at 70 miles an hour, all 4 children […]