by Shari | Feb 7, 2020 | children, divorce, family, Life in General
When’s the last time you took off for the airport after paying full price for a last minute plane ticket to nurse someone who fell and broke three ribs and then got accused of being a fraud for doing it? Anyone? Anyone? This just after spending two days at a...
by Shari | Dec 6, 2018 | children, Christmas, divorce, family, Holiday Traditions, holidays, humor., kids, Life in General, Marriage
Many years ago my father divorced my mom after thirty years of marriage effectively shattering our family’s holiday traditions. Hey, it happens, and instead of trying to force a pale imitation of Christmas pasts, my mom read somewhere that it would help to make...
by Shari | Sep 24, 2018 | Acting & Experiences, authors, beauty, children, creative inspiration, divorce, family, humor., Life in General, Marriage, writers
I was a tomboy, still am, kind of. Climbing trees, building forts, turning boxes into foil wrapped spaceships, pine cone fights with the neighborhood kids, (yes, it always ended in tears) these were all the activities of an average Saturday. But the best days...
by Shari | May 15, 2018 | America, authors, beauty, children, depression, divorce, family, Life in General
So I’m having a bad day, like you do. It’s not so much that bad things are happening to me as it is that anything that does happen is being processed through my filters as emotional torture. You know the kind of thing, someone is rude at the grocery store and you...
by Shari | Jan 3, 2018 | art, beauty, children, divorce, family, Life in General
We were in Hawaii when my sister’s first husband proposed to her. She didn’t know it was coming, but I did, so I took my four year daughter and followed them out to the beach where we could watch from a discrete distance. Creason was so amped up with...
by Shari | Jun 25, 2016 | art, authors, divorce, Life in General
You are absolutely alone. No one will ever understand you completely. Muhahahahaha. (that’s my evil laugh.) And that’s just fine. Because…you are also a part of everything, every molecule in the universe, every other living and non-living thing is...