A decade ago, when I was secretly writing poetry in the middle of the night on TheresAPoemForThat.com sorting out a heart breaking end of marriage, it was easy to post my whole heart. Literally nobody read it - and there was no chance of being found out, called out, tweeted at or screeched at for what I had written. I just got to pour out what was inside and figure out how it matched what was outside and feel better afterwards. As far as I could tell, I had one very loyal rea

Our alarm went off at 5:55 am and was ignored. At 6:16 we realized that our oldest child's alarm was also ignored. We now had exactly 34 minutes before the front door needed to shut behind them as he took our teenager to the bus for the last day of the first full week of sophomore year of high school. We scrambled (and I mean both the eggs and the morning's organization), drank day old coffee, discussed assignments that were due and projects to be completed, gave kisses, and