Welcome!
I'm very happy to announce the October publication of:
As you can see from the title, the time has come in my life as a parent when the chick has flown the nest. Winging It is the story of what happened as I got ready to let her fly.
"You have your children and you can’t possibly imagine that one day they will walk off toward their own horizon. And then it happens and you have to let them go. And so, after years and years—of scraping oatmeal off the floor with a spatula, retrieving plastic octopi from the mouths of toddlers, navigating the shoals of kindergarten and friendships and boyfriends, driver’s licenses, the specters of sex, drugs, and alcohol, the bands with their poetic lyrics, the brain-sucking nightmare of Facebook, the iPod with its thousands of songs, the singing lessons, the art classes, the heart-stopping riding lessons with their massive horses and five-foot jumps, the ambitions and the passions —you finally see it on the horizon. There you are. You. About to be returned to yourself."
Winging It:
Dispatches from an (almost) empty nest
