Airports make me sentimental. Although I’m aware that many people are flying to attend a conference in Omaha or something else equally as dull and daunting, when I’m sitting at the gate with my overpriced coffee or at the bar with my overpriced...
First it was “quite quitting” now it’s “lifestyle fatigue”. A phrase Huff Post just talked about. Lifestyle fatigue can be summed up as “feeling stuck in a rut”. Which honestly, I think who hasn’t at...
My bestie and I were chatting recently about a sequel to a book we both read. We both liked the original book, but couldn’t remember much about it. It just didn’t stick with us. We still planned to read the second one. On the other hand, we both...
After our beloved cat, Cosmo, was killed tragically in our driveway by a neighbor a couple of years ago, poppies started springing up from the rock. Directly over the spot where his body had lay, they grew like an unplanned memorial the earth showed...
Feeling anxious every Sunday evening and night, dreading Monday morning and the work week starting all over again? Read this. What exactly are Sunday scaries? Let’s start with the very basics. “Transitioning from a weekend into what’s...
I waited on my mama to make her appearance at our annual Memorial Day family reunion with a nauseating mixture of need, anxiety and dread. When she arrived, I blinked and shook my head like a battered boxer in an attempt to adjust and refocus her...
I don’t have a bucket list per se. There are lots of things I want to do before I die, but I have not sat down and written out a list. That just seems so dark. However, I do keep a bucket list of sorts in my head that mostly involves all the places...
She has always drawn all over her hands; In blue ink, and red ink, and with black sharpies. I asked her so many times to please stop doing it. My reasoning was simply that it looked dirty to me, to see her looking like that. Tessa is my middle...
Our kids are cute, we want to capture a moment, a vacation, an outing but how often are we in the picture too? It doesn’t matter how beautiful they are: most women are self-conscious of being photographed. Whether it’s because we say I need to...
I will be the first one to admit, I can be a little judgy. I really do try to keep it in check, but I’m not always successful. It’s not that I think I’m better than anyone. I just have very strong opinions on right and wrong. I recently discovered...