As I scroll through my social media feed, I find myself envious of people’s passion and love for all things fall. As hard as I try, I just can’t muster any excitement for the season. It really makes no sense. Fall has so much to offer: perfect...
This week my youngest daughter, Paige, is out early every day due to parent teacher conferences at school. The anxiety she has felt over potentially being forgotten has been more than clear to see. I’m assuming she envisions going directly from...
It’s just an hour. Can an hour make that much difference in the grand scheme of things? Apparently. The hour in question is the time difference between Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) and Central Daylight Time (CDT). All my family lives in EDT, yet we...
One of the things I will miss most as the warm weather comes to an end is something a lot of people dread: mowing the yard. I love it. Before you even ask, I’m using a riding lawn mower. Our yard is more than an acre. I’m not push-mowing that shit...
I can be a bit obsessive. I know this will probably not come as a big shock to those who know me or have been kind enough to read my nonsense. Much of it stems from my anxiety, but believe it or not, some of the things I obsess over actually bring...
After so many trips to the DMV I expected a bench in our name, my fifteen-and-a-half year old daughter, Chloe, finally passed her driver’s permit exam; For her, that white sheet is a ticket to ultimate freedom, adventure set to the soundtrack of...
I don’t have a lot of hard and fast rules I live by. I try to be a good person. I believe kindness is essential and I try to act with that in mind whenever possible. I always stop to pet a dog. I will protect my teeth at all costs. I do not eat...
My husband, Justin, had a dentist appointment several days ago to replace a broken crown. At dinner time that night, as I prepped the salad, he came up behind me and whispered in my ear words that would rattle any wife: “I have a confession to make...
My daughter recently went away to school. It has been a big adjustment for us all. I miss her dearly. She has been better at calling and texting than I expected, but it’s never enough. I just miss her face. Needless to say, I was very happy for...
My husband cannot, for the life of him, sing a correct song lyric. The extreme wrongness of the words he chooses instead of the actual ones are so shocking that I’ve given him a lay diagnosis of some sort of chromosomal abnormality. Today we rode...