I don't have a very good poker face. I spoke these truths. Directly. Politely. To my boss. Do you know what happened next?

Spoiler alert... this post is about nothing. When we finally got to a point where we could imagine our house a home, I remember walking...

A robust, white man with white hair in his mid-70s. The last thing I expected was for him to give the most common sense, bilingual and ecume

Today's strawberry festival was a fail. Forget the girl math that convinced me the entrance fee(×5) was "worth it." My children were...

I started reading a book and I think I'm going to like it. Here's my invitation to read along with me. It's a book that, very close to...

I don't mean to sound like a commercial, but I just have to share this because I think it will resonate with a lot of people! Before I...

There's a big secret I like to pretend I keep from myself. I can't do everything. Sure, I've always been blessed with the ability to do...

I've been in hiding; struggling against myself: Question: Why am I doing this? Internal Judgement or maybe just fear of being judged by...

For the first time ever, the girls are sleeping in a room apart from their brother. Usually, this works for the girls since they have each other. But our son is a different story. Much like me growing up, the hall light must stay on, the nightlight in his room must be visible, there can't be any strange shadows on the wall, and he needs someone to sleep with him to, in his words "feel so comfy and warm." About a month or so ago, after nightly requests to spend the night with

I’ve been craving Hamilton. Weird, right? Craving a musical. I watched the film version a couple of years ago and fell in love. I cringed at the thought of spending two-plus hours in front of a screen watching something I’ve already seen but this past weekend, while driving back to Live Oak from Miami, I listened to the soundtrack. I listened, I laughed, I cried, and I was in awe. I won’t pretend to know why Lin-Manuel Miranda decided to write that story. Maybe he wanted to s

It's been a while! I got buried in the work. The legal work. The momma work. The health work. The house work. I didn't do it all with a...

I've been on the edge of a downward spiral. I've been getting overwhelmed, feeling anxious and my elder-but-millenial-nonetheless need for instant gratification has been showing up around here way too often. What this often looks like is me being the opposite of mindful and present and just sitting around in front of the current task, ignoring it, and swimming in negative thoughts. A few days ago this meant reaching over to Nick and saying "I'm in a funk. We're never going to

The day after I wrote my first blog post I told my good friend and mentor that she should check it out. She took a quick look right away...

My day did not go as planned. I'm a checklist girl and around 3pm I took a look at my list and knew I had two choices. Check nothing off...