by Lisa Marlin | Jul 31, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting, Writing
This lopsided life of mine all began while I was living my childhood dream and I looked in the mirror one night and saw the face of a woman I didn’t recognize. Her lips couldn’t form a smile and her right eye wouldn’t close. Later in the emergency room, I first...
by Lisa Marlin | Jun 21, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting
I downloaded a new screensaver. It’s colorful and cute and occasionally, it cries. My picture perfect grandson entered the world before the sun was up on June 5. His daddy, my son Riles, video called me hours later and I watched my first grandbaby from 700 miles away...
by Lisa Marlin | Jun 12, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting
What is it about parents that they think because they enjoyed something in their youth (that’s me in NYC in the top left photo), that their children (that’s my daughter, right, in the same place years later) will be just as thrilled about doing the same...
by Lisa Marlin | May 27, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting
My first grandchild is due any day now and I’ve got two words of advice for his parents: Hold on. 1) Hold on to your lives before baby — to the memories of that time you met each other and started dating and broke up and then dated again until it just...
by Lisa Marlin | May 7, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting
“Do you ever regret having kids?” my daughter asks as she continues scrolling through Instagram posts on her phone. She’s sitting in the passenger seat as I drive to pick up a teammate to take them to practice. She has asked me this question countless times and...
by Lisa Marlin | Apr 27, 2016 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting
It’s my fault that he left in a U-Haul in the middle of the night. He might try to tell you differently, but don’t believe him. A mother just knows. Especially a mom who once did the same thing. How could I have known a decision I made when I was 19 would have such an...
