Last September, my daughter, two of her bridesmaids-to-be and I traveled to White Magnolia Bridal to shop for her wedding dress. I don’t recall how many dresses she tried on that day (maybe 10?). She tried on a beautiful ballgown first, but isn’t sold in a bright white, and the available color just didn’t complement […]
Same Middle Name, New “Award”
MIDDLE My daughter’s middle name will stay the same (Anastasia), as will her first name, but so many other things about her life (and ours) changed yesterday when she got married. I kept the middle name I had been given at birth (Elaine) rather than changing it to my maiden name (Rucker) when I got […]
Five Minute Friday: An Original Mom
SHE This week, Kat Bouska asked, “Who would you cast in the role of your parents in a movie about your life?” It’s Mother’s Day weekend, so I thought about suggesting who would play my mom in a movie about our life. I came up blank, and the Star By Face celebrity lookalike app only […]
Failure, Success and the Home Team
My April weekends were full of bridal showers (my daughter is getting married soon and my niece three weeks after that), Easter and a second COVID-19 vaccine. On the work front, here are the stories that stood out the most last month: BoardSource So often, I’ll read an article for work and will feel that […]
Is work broken?
As various pictures of previous Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Days popped up in my Timehop over the last couple of days, I wondered how the event was handled during the pandemic. (Answer: I don’t know what people did last year, but this year they went virtual.) My kids are grown now, so […]
Why think a baby knows what’s OK?
PERMISSION My cousin, Frances, died yesterday (she’s in the plaid shirt in the picture below). There’s a story that I always remember about Frances — because it’s one of the earliest times I didn’t think something through in a situation that could have put someone else in danger. Frances and her husband had adopted a […]