Family

I know it’s been a while since I’ve updated. I guess it’s been hard to blog since I got back

My father has undergone a dramatic change in the last few years. I try not to question it, lest I

Whenever my mom senses any doubt in me she launches into a story about the time she went to parent-teacher

My father came in today to help me paint my apartment (three walls will be porcelain and one will be

I just put my sister on a plane and drove home through a waterfall of tears. I probably won’t see

My mom is visiting me (again) because her God-son graduated from UCLA this weekend. However, I secretly think she just

I just attended my sister’s graduation from high school where I did the requisite crying at the first chords of

My father missed our therapy appointment, so we ended up going straight to the Italian food. In retrospect, though, it

I can’t be within a five mile radius of my mother and not find myself in the possession of a

If I eat anymore I’m going to explode like the fat man in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. And, despite

It all started on the day I was born and met my parents. They were the first cult leaders. On

When I said good-bye to my family my teen-aged sister and my mother were in a gridlock argument. They sort

While home visiting my mom, I told her that I would help her de-clutter the room with all of my

I celebrated Father’s Day by eating Costco hot dogs with my friend and discussing why we weren’t calling our fathers