Searching for Answers Outside Ourselves

Searching for Answers Outside Ourselves

Why, as women, do we seek answers outside of ourselves?  Why do we insist on calling each of our girlfriends in anticipation of them agreeing with us?  When really, the most trustworthy friend won’t agree with us.  Instead, she will be still, simply letting us...
Mother-in-Love

Mother-in-Love

This is a photo from my nephew’s birthday.  The woman to the right of me is my mother-in-law, Becky.  She is genuinely the kindest woman I have ever met. When Kaveh and I were in college, our moms came out to visit for parent’s weekend.  Kaveh and I took them...
What Do You See in This Picture?

What Do You See in This Picture?

   What do you see in this picture? I should say, what do you think you see in this picture?  The moment was captured in 2015.  At the time, we lived on the outskirts of LA.  The photographer was exceptionally proud, saying, “This picture grabs me, I can see the love...
Pimped Out

Pimped Out

It was the summer of 1998, I was nineteen and home from college. I landed a job at Chef Andre’s newest restaurant on the west side of Albuquerque. I’d waited tables since I was fourteen, but this was my first upscale gig with its seared seabass and parmesan stuffed...
Bounce Houses and Boujee Coffee

Bounce Houses and Boujee Coffee

I was invited to church last Sunday. I haven’t sat my ass in a church in a year. Having lived in eight cities over the past thirteen years, I’ve done my fair share of church shopping. One might accuse me of being a church whore and they wouldn’t be...
Bedroom Mishaps

Bedroom Mishaps

      It’s March Madness, so you know what that means. Yup, you guessed it, thousands of men holding frozen peas on their precious family jewels while loafing on the sofa.  I never knew there was a correlation between the NCAA and the act of...

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