I read this piece earlier this month at Lit Lounge, a way cool program sponsored by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, headed up by the amazing Tania Katan. If you haven’t been, you should go — next month’s line-up includes my friend Laurie Notaro. Go to smoca.org for details and to purchase tickets. It’s […]

The statewide Special Olympics cheerleading competition is coming up later this week, and the members of Team Tempe are as ready as they’ll ever be. They’ve cheered at basketball games, competed in the regional competition and practiced just about every Saturday since December. A funny thing occurred to me at practice this morning: I’m going […]

She’s quiet, so I really have no idea where this came from. Well, technically, it came from the back seat of the car, as she fiddled (I thought it was fiddling) on her lap top yesterday afternoon. She’s growing up, my first born daughter — but not too fast. On the brink of 12, she […]