One month ago I was discouraged. I was trying to plan a summer trip to some sort of national park and was coming up short. Never having taken a family vacation outside of visiting family and two highly scheduled trips to Disney, […]
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Grandma Rose’s worn, white farmhouse was nothing fancy. When visiting you were just as likely to see a turtle she’d trapped dangling from a tree as you were a fresh apple pie cooling on the counter. The brown linoleum floors […]
I am famous for picking the wrong lane at Target. If someone is couponing, price adjusting, exchanging, or just patently confused, I am guaranteed to wind up behind this person in line. Every time. One such Friday night, I […]
My brother and I were born thirteen months apart. With identical blonde curls and mirror image faces, everyone thought we were twins. I sometimes wonder if that means I looked like a boy or he looked like a girl. But […]
Last fall I attended a fairy tale outdoor wedding. The sun was streaming through orange, yellow, and red leaves in a peaceful wooded area. The birds were chirping. The bride and groom were young, beautiful, and hopelessly in love. It […]
Last weekend we hosted a little girl for a few days. We didn’t know much about the situation other than there was recently some major trauma in her and her mother’s life and the mom needed some rest. I thought […]
Yesterday I placed an emergency call to my friend Ali because I needed a stat family picture for my husband’s new employer. Incidentally, only a very selfless friend would ask a full-term pregnant mother to drop everything, pack up her […]
Confession: In high school I had a few mishaps and run-ins with authority. I specifically recall the time I got busted for TP-ing by the local police. I wasn’t caught red handed but they had a hunch that it was me and […]