I fell head over heels for the movie adaptation of The Descendants a few years back. This family dealing with their grief struck me as true to life. The loss of a loved one can be overwhelming but life still goes forward, even when you’re dying inside. The Descendants captured that dichotomy and I’ve been meaning to read the book ever since. The novel centers on Matt King and his family. Matt’s great grandmother was a Hawaiian princess and he and his cousins are the […]
Being seen, being acknowledged: Worth its weight in gold.
Everybody’s experiences are different, right? Nobody had the same exact high school experience as anybody else; nobody’s Christmases, or prison terms, or piano recitals are exactly alike; And nobody’s experience of parenting is exactly 100% the same as any others. But the thing about writing is that it takes all the things that are unique and singular, and somehow makes them feel universal. There’s something about mothering, about parenting, something about loving a child so much to the exclusion of all else that, even though […]
Ain’t no party like a sippy cup party…
Mele Bart thought that when she told her boyfriend Bobby that she was pregnant, he’d want to get married. It turns out that he did, but to someone else. Two years later, and the wedding is about to take place, and Bobby wants Ellie to be the flower girl. Mele doesn’t want Ellie to go without her, so she declares that she’s attending as well, and bringing a date. The only trouble is she doesn’t exactly have a date, so she makes one up, confident […]