By: Brandy Black Day One, Preschool There are many phases of letting go in parenting and each one I’m convinced has been harder for me than my daughter. Sophia recently started preschool. She was ready. I knew it. I was a little nervous building up to the big first day of school but overall quite […]
By: Joey Uva Have you ever had a dream that really hits you hard? That gives you chills? That makes you think? Trevor, my partner, lost his mother to cancer over eleven years ago. Trevor and I have had conversations about his mother –what she was like, who she was as a person, how much […]
By: Brandy Black We got in a fight before our wedding. On the ferry ride over. I can’t remember why. Could it have been the make up? Things were tense. We had been planning a wedding for a year from another state and it was all happening on this overcast day after waiting 2 years […]
By: Brandy Black Susan and I were engaged for two years. I’d like to say it’s because I’m old-fashioned and wanted to be sure that she was “the one” but really it’s because we wanted to get married in Seattle and there are only 2 guaranteed months of sun (if that), we were on a […]
By: Joey Uva Kindergarten! Where have five and half years gone already? In one week you will start kindergarten. I attended the elementary school open house held back in April and saw what your very first class room would look like; it took me back thirty-eight years to my first class room. I don’t remember […]
By: Heather Somaini The wedding was over and everyone had gone home. It was just us again. Life returned to normal. But the one thing that had been fairly consistent for me was that nothing stayed normal for long. About a month after the wedding, my upstairs neighbor decided that my condo remodel had negatively […]
By: Heather Somaini Everyone has a love story – some have many. My parents have a great one and I love to tell it. They’re seriously two of the most amazing people I know and I love them dearly. You see, my parents met when they were 15. They grew up on different sides of […]
By: Brandy Black We sat in my room, I put on the band Belly and flipped to my favorite song at the time: “Stay”. We talked, I told her I broke up with my girlfriend that day, she told me she broke up with hers. This was not a previous plan or discussion. I smiled. […]
By: Heather Somaini I’d like to say that from the minute I proposed everything was rose petals, rainbows, and heart-shaped clouds but to be honest, it all started to fall apart a bit. We were both at the top of our game, making more than we had ever made before. I had recently purchased my […]
By: Brandy Black Do you know how when you are dating and everything is so new in the beginning and you like the person but you don’t want them to know that you like them too much and the games sort of begin? The games…the I’m-going-to-casually-invite-you-over-to-dinner-even-if-I-don’t-know-how-to-cook games. The I’m-going-to-act-like-I-spent-5-minutes-getting-ready games. The yeah-sure-swing-by-at-8-so-we-can-have-some-dinner-games. This was the […]
