Here's the thing that we discovered yesterday: when you decide to fly half-way across the country with three small children, just so that you can turn around and drive back in the other direction,...
Requiescat in pace, Grandpa. You were loved and will be loved, always. Always.
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Life goes on, and though I'm stumbling a bit from grief, I am keeping moving. Literally. To the east, and then onward,...
I have some pretty cool news to report. Problem is, I can't yet report it.
Oh, wait: I CAN. Wanna guess? Guess away, and then scroll to the bottom of the post...
I am overwhelmed, today - and was overwhelmed yesterday, and the day before that, and am certain that I will be similarly overwhelmed tomorrow - with this singular thought: I do not want my...
I have spanked my daughter. There, I said it.
I have spanked my daughter - just once, and for as good a reason as I think is possible to imagine for spanking - and I...
Here is the paradox about parenthood and marriage: having children with the person you love gives you a bajillion new reasons to adore each other, a kerpillion new horizons towards which your hearts, together,...
*tap tap tap*
Is this thing on?
Can you hear me?
(Wow, it feels like I am standing in my underwear onstage, peering into the darkness beyond the lights. Which, yes, is weird. And more or less...
Oh, hey, you hear that? That is THE SOUND OF SILENCE.It's pretty quiet around here, and might be for another day or so. Because? I am - wait for it - moving shop! Finally...
I vacuumed.I didn't know what else to do, so I vacuumed.We knew last night that something wasn't quite right about the bug bite on the side of Emilia's face. It was a little swollen,...
I've been trying all week to craft a post about my sister and Tanner, about how they're struggling right now, about how they keep taking blows, about how they keep taking blows but never...