You made it! Summer is FINALLY upon us. Welcome to the smell of driveway campfires and fresh cut lawn. Before you know it, you may even be hearing ice cream trucks playing that one song [...]
What did you used to be scared of that you aren’t scared of anymore? For me, it was the dark. I used to sprint like an Olympian to take the garbage out growing up. I remember even counting the [...]
My son didn't want to talk about it. That didn't mean I was fine with that, though. The text message I'd received about what had happened in our neighborhood really set me off. Now I was driving [...]
I've never shared this publicly, but I have a super power. I can enter any museum, zoo or aquarium in the world with my family and go through it in 30 minutes. The trick is to tell my family, [...]
Oh, how I longed to be in the Brady Bunch growing up. It wasn’t that I desired to share a bedroom with two brothers or a bathroom with three sisters (with no toilet in the bathroom – seriously, I [...]
I am a mom of a toddler and twins, which is sort of a terrifying math problem. You see, I only have two arms. Three kids, but only two legs to sit on. Three kids, but only two eyes to watch with. [...]
Christmas is coming. Maybe that excites you...or maybe not. For every person who shouts, "EGG NOG! DECORATIVE SWEATERS! TINSEL! CHRISTMAS CAROLS!" there's someone who mumbles, "egg nog... [...]
I wish I could remember exactly where I heard the radio show. However, it has played over and again in the back of my mind since I heard it, more than a year ago. Somehow I had stumbled on some [...]
It's what we don't see coming that scares us the most. Because suddenly, everything can change. This is the fear that we all stuff down... even when it rears its head. At any given moment, the [...]
Occasionally, you'll notice a police car nearby. (How often that happens may depend on how fast you drive.) It's comforting when an officer routinely drives by to ensure your neighborhood is [...]