My middle two daughters start high school this week, and that has me feeling so many things. I’m reminded of doing high school drop-off my very first time 8 years ago with my oldest; How you watch them from your car, just praying they’ll face...
Anyone who has ever taken a teenager on a family vacation knows the drill:You make the plans, the teenager hates the plans, the teenager makes faces and noises to alert you to this fact, you confront their attitude (often in a Starbucks), you remind...
The other day I watched a video online of a man surprising several homeless people by bringing them food. None of them had asked for it. They were shocked as he approached them wherever them were; sitting against a wall or laying alongside a walkway...
It was bed time. As I tucked my 9 year old, Paige, into her bed, and as if she’d been thinking on it for awhile, in the dark she suddenly asked, “Do you ever think about how if Daddy hadn’t said ‘yes’ to being invited to come out to that Irish...
Our dogs got sprayed by a skunk last week. The smell has permeated everything. For several days you could smell it wafting all the way from out in the street. We tried literally everything friends and the Internet said to do. For days on end...
I sat down and started planning – One last hurrah trip before the end of what has felt like the shortest and most needed summer that ever was. I began brainstorming about where we could go for a long weekend; Somewhere semi-close. Somewhere...
I met my friend Crystal nearly 16 years ago on the message board of a website for women trying to conceive. After trying for a year, then a devastating miscarriage, I needed to know there were women in the world who were out there feeling like me...
We just returned 4 days ago from our annual trip to the KOA. Having missed last year due to Covid, this familiar trip felt like a welcome back to pre-pandemic life. Just sun, and swimming, and togetherness! It was going to be great! Years worth of...
We finally met the neighbors tonight that had moved into my childhood home, right next door to where we now live. I’ve seen them several times, but have always just missed being able to speak to them, and I’ve peered through their windows often...
Dear teenage girl, Come sit with me. Perch here on the bed. Come tell me why your eyes look down and won’t meet mine, instead. I see you grinning beautifully, in your selfie pose, But you forget I know more of you than most anyone else knows. You...