Wheeeeee. Here we go. What the hell was I thinking letting Meredith go to the playground at Amy's Ice Creams? Oh, right. Her 10-year-old sister was already on the spinner, so I had to let Meredith go too. My daughter is 14 and has a brain anomaly...

As the giraffe placed her mouth firmly around the tree’s top branches and pulled off some more leaves, the children all clinging to the fence watched in excitement. I could only imagine how mundane this all must have seemed to the giraffe at Waco’s Cameron Park...

The career girl still lies inside of me, but so does the mother. I still go to events just not in career clothes and not as an editor....