A pair of pink socks that I “borrowed” from her over ten years ago- there are holes on the bottom but I still wear them most nights to bed. The butterfly necklace she gave me when I was eight. A half-empty bottle of white musk perfume oil from The Body Shop that I keep in the back [...]

Moms say the darndest things. One of my favorite activities is taking Kiana, my two year old daughter, to the park and listening to all the dumbshit platitudes that are uttered from the mouths of otherwise intelligent-seeming women.
Just yesterday, Kiki was playing in the sandbox and she approached another toddler and began to play with her [...]

“Can you please help me?’
Haley and I were walking on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, buying a few last minute items she needed for her upcoming graduation ceremony when we walked by a middle-aged homeless woman who was begging on the corner. The city of Santa Monica is a glaring example of a [...]

My friend Jill recently told me that bad writing was better than no writing. Point taken. It is time for me to write something. But Jill, while we are being brutally honest with each other, did it ever occur to you that I have gone into serious tapenade withdrawals while you have been out of [...]