When I decided to move to AZ, my life was at a standstill. I couldn’t find a job, and I was ready for a change. When a friend of mine told me he wanted to go to AZ to find a job, I decided to go... Read more >>

There are really only two places on Earth that I want to be, for the rest of my life: London and with my family. Ironically enough, each one is what separates me from the other. I think my heart is in... Read more >>

Over the course of the seventeen years since my son burst into my world and made me a mother, I’ve washed countless dishes, done magnificent amounts of laundry, and picked up more things from... Read more >>

Let me tell you a story. I was once in love about four years ago and I thought I had it made. This girl was my everything; we dated for three years, got engaged, and anything she asked for, I’d... Read more >>

Last fall, I ran into a friend of mine who had recently sent her only child off to college. “I fell into bed for a month,” she said. “I was so depressed, I didn’t want to... Read more >>

There are a few days that come to mind as extraordinary in their importance. What defines what is important? The day I married my husband, both times I gave birth to two beautiful boys. The day I got... Read more >>

I was born and raised in Chicago. I’d visited other cities, flown to Buenos Aires (where my mother is from), and driven in forty of the forty-eight contiguous states. In 1998, while I was... Read more >>

Did you know that I used to live in Arizona? Some of the people I today consider my closest friends may not even know that. Or they perhaps have only a vague recollection of that fact: an interesting... Read more >>

I’ve kept trying to realize why, with every opportunity I attempted to get out of the situation that I knew was wrong, did I stick with it. What was it that he was able to say that made me run... Read more >>

You probably have heard it all from years of students and parents and know by now not everything is right on schedule or works to the beat of a drum. Move in day, how exciting and ridiculously... Read more >>