Elizabeth does not want to live in a box. I’ve been lucky enough to live and work in a small town where, even at its worst, rush hour is hardly ever more than a twenty-minute inconvenience. On the rare and unavoidable occasions when I am forced into the city and subjected to the true horror..
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Funny how a car can influence your whole being. Well, it can mine. Way back I was the not-so-proud owner of a Mazda MPV, a mini-van, a mom van. It served its purpose. Many a diaper was changed in the rear, and it hauled both my boys safely to and fro. Ultimately it transformed into the..
TMI Warning: NSF anyone who might be offended by some particularly frank talk about my womanly parts. And please, to my boys, just skip this one. Trust me. Imagine my shock (and his) when at the mature age of 37, newly single for the first time in fifteen years, and relishing in the aftermath of my..
Nobody likes a zealot. Seriously, think of all your friends who really stand for something, with their in-your-face, holier-than-thou dogma they can’t stand not shoving down your throat. They are only happy atop their soapbox. Admit it. Deep down, they drive you nuts, don’t they? Sure, their causes are noble, and yeah, we’d all do..
Elizabeth is not a total heretic; just hear me out. I don’t like taking antibiotics, and as a general rule I try to avoid them. They are over-prescribed, and frankly I don’t care for the inevitable yeast infection afterwards. Nevertheless, everyone has her breaking point and I’d reached mine. Cursed with a cough for nearly..
My sister’s favorite movie is Runaway Bride. To be fair, favorite may not be the best word, so let’s just say it spoke to her, loud and clear. Much like Julia Roberts’ character, she no longer knew how she liked her eggs. She too had lost herself, in one relationship after another. Countless women discover this at..
Deep in the trenches of new motherhood, up to my elbows in diapers, up to here with people telling me “this too shall pass,” and convinced I was a failure, I consoled myself by starting a list of what I’d done right, things I could be proud of as a mother. Mind you, up until recently I..
Elizabeth is…one jerk away from becoming an evil, heartless bitch. I’ve been single now for roughly two and a half years, after a thirteen year marriage. I didn’t rush into dating. Instead I took my time to adjust to living alone, and kept myself busy doing all those mid-life, post-divorce things like finding yourself again…
Elizabeth is not an evil, heartless bitch. I just don’t like dogs. There were very few things I could be sure of in my twenties. The only constant in my life at that time was my toothpaste, good ol’ Tom’s of Maine, Cinnamint. Everything else was in flux, but each morning and night Tom took..
Elizabeth is occasionally a bit ambitious in the kitchen…to say the least. Take this story, for example. Written originally in December 2007, it shows how carried away I can get with just one new little cake platter. For some time now I have been dropping hints to my family that I wanted a cake platter..