Edith's Follies

  20 years is a long time to live in one little place. We moved into this house on June 19, 2004. I was 29 years old. We didn’t pay for a ...

Recently my business got a 3-star review from a customer, and it felt super unfair. We did an amazing job on his project, and he told our st...

  “We are like men who have lost their legs; they never grow new ones.” -  Alcoholics Anonymous, page 30 When I was a little girl my broth...

Image credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images This very real feeling of inferiority is magnified by his childish sensitivity and it is this state of...

  Sometimes I feel an immense sadness that my life didn’t turn out how I dreamed it would. The dream: the white picket fence, multiple kids,...

Her favorite place to sit was in the window seat on the landing. Mama had upholstered a cushion for the seat that had all different colors o...

Lately when I look at myself in the mirror, all I can see is that I have this big belly that is spilling out the top of my jeans. I have rea...