HOUSE OF KB

I have always wanted to write. I have, actually, for years. But I don't think the adolescent ramblings of a tween or the documentation tendencies of a young adult count. I've recently reread them. So I can tell you, they don't. Now I need a place to be free. Unfettered. As I figure out this new space and place in my life. Newly single mom. Business owner. Mother. Daughter. Sister. Friend. But no longer wife. Grab a cup, sit on the comfy couch and chat with me.

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What do you do?

When you show up for everyone but yourself? When it goes beyond the pejorative not putting the mother/self on the to-do list. When it has moved beyond a lack of self-care and bled into the acknowledgement of self? The pandemic has been hard. For everyone. Full stop. Harder for some, easier for others but still hard across the board. It feels almost like a newborn phase again. My world has become increasingly small. It has become the people in this house and their needs first

We call it Corona Confidence.

A couple of years ago, at B's birthday party, he invited his classmate who lives down the street. Literally the other end of our road. The boys hit it off and have been best buds since. About a year ago, his mother and I were lamenting that the kids could not just walk to one another's houses. It seemed so far. We talked about walking halfway and watching them walk the rest. It is a two minute walk that is essentially a straight shot. But we still weren't ready. Then came Cov

Living in the gray.

We're in the midst of a worldwide pandemic. Though it kinda seems like the world is on the upswing and we're in the thick of it. Seven months since we were first sent home. I teach English to kids in China so I had a sense of what was coming. My students there went home for winter break and still hadn't returned in February. When we were sent home March 12th, I had an inkling that was it. We were home to stay. Kids, I have learned, are extraordinarily resilient. Not to say t