I love to travel, but I always struggle with re-entry on the other side of the trip. Since we moved in June, this is even more of an issue now because coming “home” feels strange. Where even is home exactly? Over the holiday weekend we went to the beach for the first time in quite…
By the time this posts I’ll be en route to Nashville for a writing conference. Even just typing that sentence makes me feel a little presumptuous. Wouldn’t my time be better spent at a parenting conference? A cooking class? A spiritual retreat? Maybe so. But it’s been almost ten years {my oldest two were wearing…
A couple of years ago on a laid-back Saturday morning, our girls stumbled upon a movie called Dolphin Tale. The movie dramatizes the true story of a dolphin, named Winter, who is rescued and rehabilitated after getting caught in a fishing net off the coast of Florida and subsequently losing her tail. A team of…
Bad service is exhausting. I’m in the middle of an email exchange with a company that has yet to send me a gift I ordered for someone more than six weeks ago. The item is in some sort of retail purgatory; it’s marked PAID but has yet to be marked SHIPPED. This business has cute,…