In this age of the entitlement complex many parents are rightfully concerned about spoiling their children. I know I am. Last year, after my initial excitement at getting to be Santa for the first time, I was overcome with a gloomy anxiety, a progression of obsessive thoughts and questions: how many gifts is too many? […]
On Finding the One
In the first long conversation I had with my husband I was currently interested (maybe obsessed is a better word) in Myers Briggs and the Four Temperaments. I probably spent thirty minutes asking him questions, analyzing his personality, and mapping it out for him in diagrams. Thankfully, he must not have thought I was too […]
Why Pity the Fool?
Tuesday night I waited anxiously by my cell phone for nine hours while my husband trekked home and eventually abandoned his stuck car in the snow and ice. It was a pretty stressful day. And we were some of the luckier ones. It was a pretty stressful day(s) for lots of people. And yet, their […]