Friday was a long day peppered frequently with “Is it 4 yet?” I had made the mistake the day before of telling him that at 4 o’clock tomorrow, “We are going to go see the…
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40ish-year-old mom to a 13-year-old and rescued basset hounds. I am not married but the guy I live with and I are super serious. Except when we're making fart jokes and then the 13-year-old rolls her eyes and shakes her head. I am from NorCal. I live in the house I grew up in. I bake when I am nervous and I like to grow things in my front yard to nibble on and season dinner with.
At some point in the winter I started having fantasies about dragging some friends to Joshua Tree to see the desert in bloom and do some rock climbing. I had climbed in gyms previously and…
I had been promising something fun and the weather had cleared. This is going to be great, I tell myself. I grabbed a hat for me and a couple for him, thinking, "It won't be…
So the little guy is the one who calls me Mamam. That's where the title came from. I moved to Fort Bragg for the first time in 1985. It was a big city for me…
I returned from a climbing trip in Joshua Tree with two very special rocks for my almost 4 year old. He wanted a robot suit so he was understandably a bit unimpressed. So we went…