How Love Story and its Sequel Mirrored My Life

This essay contains quite a bit of adult language, and by adult language, I mean the words “shit, fuck, and bullshit” fly throughout this piece. I watched Oliver’s Story, the 1978 sequel to Love Story, a film often considered one of the most romantic movies of all time. For years, I put off the hour […]

Cydney’s Fifth Birthday

Cydney Milner turned five on Sunday. By Monday morning, I was feeling hungover from the preparation, execution, and the financial toll the weekend took on my mother and me. Cyd enjoyed the day and the whole weekend. We had a birthday party for her at her school on Friday afternoon. She wanted a Little […]

When My Daughter’s Heart Is Broken On Valentine’s Day…

In my daughter’s mind, Valentine’s Day is on her birthday. Truth be told, she could care less; and I love that attitude. Cydney will grow up, and Valentine’s Day will make her birthdays even sweeter. The day in which virtually the western world stops to celebrate love will become her day and I know she […]

Four Turning Thirty: My Daughter’s Big Plans For Her Birthday

Happy New Year! It’s been a while and there is plenty to catch up on and I will make sure to do so for real. Cydney is turning four on Saturday. Ever since January 2nd this has been virtually all that she’s concerned about. Every commercial that comes on Disney Jr is followed up with […]

Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is my favorite day of the year. Why? It’s my daughter’s birthday! What a great way to celebrate love than being given the best gift of all? My own personal kid. I look back at the last three years and realize that I am very blessed. God saw fit that my daughter whose […]

My First Love

To keep up with the theme of the week I have one more story to tell… Ugh to this one. I was fourteen. I remember seeing this girl before around school. I thought she was cute but the opportunity to actually converse never came up. We met outside of school like maybe the first week […]

Valentine’s Day, Timile, and My Grandmother

To keep with my theme and motif of writing around Valentine’s Day I’m gonna share another story. Tomorrow will probably be another story as well. So here’s this one… I used to hate Februarys. I can only say that I don’t anymore because of Cydney. It is the month in where Murphy and his dumb […]

A Funny Middle School Story about ‘Cupid’

With Valentine’s Day coming up at the end of the week I thought I’d do posts themed around it for your entertainment. I figured my first one should be a musical post. This one will be about 112’s Cupid. I remember the first time I heard 112. My sister and I were in the car […]

The Weekend In Pictures: Cydney Turns Two Edition

Very VERY busy weekend! I did not know that the most exhausting day of the year was birthday! Christmas has nothing on this! Well, she had a good time and that made it all worthwhile. Enjoy!

Turning Two

Yesterday was a pretty long day. Well, it kinda started like many do. I woke up at six but due to fatigue I took a little while to get out of bed. No matter how tired I was I was pumped because it was my daughter’s birthday and the first one I got to spend […]