Mama’s Boy, vol. 2
Dear Mama, Last year around this time, I wrote you a letter. It was my first May in Connecticut, and I was feeling sorry for myself. I missed home and the people at home. And, of course, I missed you–that part hasn’t changed. Just last week I was moving...
Going Home
It’s 7:30 Saturday morning, I’m sitting at a local restaurant checking work emails (I’ve been out of the office for four days) and generally putzing around waiting for the day to begin. I’m staying in Burlington, North Carolina, just a...
Glamour shots…sort of.
A few weeks ago, I met my delightful and dear friend Sarah a couple of states over in Massachusetts for a visit and a photoshoot. Sarah is an accomplished photographer (although she’d never frame it that way–get it? Frame it? I know, awful). Anyway, like I...
Dear Jonathan: A Letter from Mom
In May, I wrote a letter to my Mom. Here’s her response. OK. Not really. But it is a letter that my dear cousin, Nelanie, found in a piece of her mama’s furniture some months ago. (Why my aunt, her mama had it, neither one of us can figure out!) After an...
Mama’s Boy
To my sweet Mama, It’s been four years since we last shared a Mother’s Day together in person. This time four years ago you were in the middle of a rigorous series of chemo treatments–treatments we discovered the following July had worked. That fall,...01. WELCOME
