Our resort where all the water drinking will take place! I regard theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. Oscar Wilde I regard the theatre…
Author: karensburns
The Fingerprint of Second Thoughts
“Thank you for not abusing me” she said. “You’re welcome……….it hasn’t been easy” I replied. My daughter, Talia, is training to be a volunteer on Teen Lifeline, the suicide hot line here in Phoenix. We had the above conversation more than once after the session on abuse. I didn’t plan…
Advice She Will Probably Never Hear
It’s almost time. At 7:25 AM Monday, Hannah is a senior in high school. The same Hannah that was born to a freaked out mother who didn’t think she could raise a child. Oh. My. God. If she does graduate from high school, does that mean I could raise a…
Sit, Mom, Sit.: Well-Intentioned Poster Child
Sit, Mom, Sit.: Well-Intentioned Poster Child: A circa 1880’s poster with a picture of a can-can dancer in the midst of a high kick hung above my white-canopied bed, on the green ch…
Well-Intentioned Poster Child
A circa 1880’s poster with a picture of a can-can dancer in the midst of a high kick hung above my white-canopied bed, on the green checked wallpapered walls of my girlhood bedroom. Every night, in the hours spent dreaming, these words hung over my head: Come See Karen Suzanne Can-Can Dancer…
Sit, Mom, Sit.: Money To Go
Sit, Mom, Sit.: Money To Go: This is not an accurate depiction…. It seems to me that if you have money, there aren’t any inconveniences or problems to overcome…
Money To Go
Stock pic, not an accurate depiction…. It seems to me that if you have money, there aren’t any inconveniences or problems to overcome. Plumbing emergency? Call now. Fix now. Do not wait and cause more damage trying to save on the cost. Drive one-day-old-brand-new-uninsured-car-you-never-in-a-million-years thought you could afford into the…
The 1 % Legacy
Mom is caught between who she is and who she wants to be I was supposed to be a trophy wife. It’s what my mother trained me to do. (I hope she unknowingly trained me in this and did not purposefully only give me the skills I’d need to trap…
Blessings and Evil, Now More Than Ever
I’m having trouble reconciling the warm, soft, sweet life our family has been blessed with against the horrendous pain the families in Connecticut have been handed. This morning I woke inside the softest cocoon wrapped in my husband’s arms. Our fluffy cat purred and curled up in mine. My children slept…