We’ve not been getting much sleep around here lately. The 1st Grader has been sick with sinus congestion and a low-grade fever for a week now. For the past several nights the Spouse and I have taken turns helping her blow her nose and checking on her rapid breathing at different intervals. I’m hoping she…
I’ve been using some of the extra time indoors on these cold and dreary days to go through closets, pantries, and drawers and purge sweaters with holes, soups that have expired, and pens that have dried up. With all the Marie Kondo hype and it being the start of a new year, January feels like…
I love how January always feels like the first page of a new journal. Of course there are circumstances and outcomes we can’t control, but we at least have the opportunity to write new lines and craft some new stories. Maybe it stems from perfectionism or an underlying fear of failure, but I have never…
Despite my best efforts to be well prepared, I’m heading into Christmas on two wheels again. I’m not sure what the antidote to all the crazy is, but I know what it is not: the parking lot of our city’s shopping mecca forty-eight hours before the holiday. The shirt I’m wearing may say “Holly Jolly…