It’s been sitting on my nightstand for months and I now know why I waited so long to read it, I needed these words now. I know everyone and their mother has already read Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, but I finished it today and it did something I haven’t…
Trying with all my might to hold on to the calm that I experienced from my time spent with my family at the sea over the weekend, feeling incredibly blessed today at my good fortune (and even better friends), a bit under the weather and slightly overwhelmed at the rest of the week ahead with…
My husband has taken Lucas on his own several times, but for the first time we went camping as a family this weekend and it was nothing like I expected. It wasn’t that I was anti-camping before, I just simply had zero interest. Zero interest in going without a shower, sleeping in a bag outdoors,…
July sucked. I was SO happy to turn the page on my calendar yesterday. Yes, there were some memorable moments, but for the most part I am more than ready to move on. July really brought out the worst in me. I wrote a post earlier this week called The Yucky Side, where I shared…
A journalism professor I had in college said writers write to get it out of their head. I have never forgotten that and I firmly believe it. My brain is a constant mess of words and phrases, ideas and thoughts all bouncing around trying to find a way out. Sometimes they escape and make sense,…
Lucas is 2 1/2 years old today and they were right. I was warned. Everyone that said it goes by fast. By it, of course, I mean childhood…. mine, yours and especially our children’s. One minute it was just Todd and I and the next we became a family by bringing home our newborn son….
Some days the sadness wins and you just can’t fight it. Some days the questions outweigh the answers. Some days there are more tears than smiles. Some days it would be so much easier to pull the covers way up over your head and stay in bed all day long. Some days holding on to…
I love quotes! I have a 483 page Word document on my computer full of quotes that I have collected over the years. Sometimes my words are not enough and that’s when I turn to what others can say better, often more articulately and definitely more concisely. To select only 10 to share with you…
I am so humbled by the generous response to my new weekly feature, Letters For You that debuted last week and very grateful to Poppy of Funny or Snot for helping me kick off the series. If you missed her heart wrenching letter to the lifeguard she credits to saving her daughter’s life, you can…
