• Find the funny in all things, and life will be fun. I don’t know where I heard that in my youth, but it has stuck with me. I really really wish I could remember the context, but it is deeply hidden somewhere in my mid-forties Mom brain which must prioritize school lunch components that need…

    Find the Funny, Brave Girls
  • It’s hard to predict what things will “stick” in our children’s minds years from now. What memories will become indelibly lodged in their brains and psyches. What events will be life changing. What words will be mulled over repeatedly. What action or inaction will never be forgotten, and will alter the way they think and…

    Grieving is Brave
  • Sorry is a word. Sorry can go from a word to a feeling. Sorry can go from a feeling to a behavior. It’s that action, in the behavior step, that separates the phony from the authentic. Sometimes we say we’re sorry when we don’t really feel it or before we feel it. Sorry is not…

  • No excuses. My commitment to myself for 2019 is that I am done with excuses. Done with making excuses. Done with allowing excuses from others. One of the things I’ve realized about myself this past year is that I am an enabler. I am capable of juggling a lot and organizing a lot and being…

  • Twas the night before the night before Christmas, and my children were nestled all snug in my bed while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. Well not sugar plums, likely Skittles. And not beds, but bed. But you get the idea. Two nights ago I was in the middle of my giant king-sized…