Gosh.
I have to tell you that I am completely bowled over by all of the generous and amazing responses to last week’s incident involving our daughter. Aside from all the well wishes my family was given here on Livejournal, I also received several emails offering support and strength. For all of the words of kindess, peace, and healing, we are profoundly grateful.
She is doing very, very well and has pretty much returned to the most excellent and normal teenage life in the whole gottdamned world: a delightful gaggle of best girlfriends, an excellent grade in her summer school class, riding her beachcruiser, Starbucks green tea frappucinos, MySpace, and just hanging out on the gorgeous beach at Coronado Island; an endless summer, indeed.
Thanks to whatever gods that may smile down upon my little family, she is safe…and that extraordinary place remains a location of great beauty, good friends, and much happiness for us all.
You have touched me beyond words — and so, from the bottom of a grateful mother’s heart (the deepest and most powerful place in the universe, mind you)…I shall just say thank you.

About muffybolding
Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.
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