...but then I had kids

After taking another hiatus from my writing, I realized (yet again) that I simply cannot not write . As it so often happens with The Univer...

Aidan Kai turns 12 today. Our baby. The post below from his 2nd birthday still pretty much covers his personality. We knew he was special an...

Once again, we find ourselves not quite where we were "supposed" to be. We originally planned Outer Banks as our first ...

We were supposed to be on a plane right now, heading to Kauai. We had planned it and saved up for it for almost 2 years, but then the bizarr...

On the first day of kindergarten, Ben walked up to his teacher, unprompted, stuck out his hand, looked up, and announced, ...

I walked away from a life I thought I was supposed to want from the plans I made because I thought I was supposed to from the pic...

My knees barely fit under the table. It was my boys' coveted Little Einstein's arts-and-crafts-and-everything-they-wanted-...

I was at a kid's birthday party once, discussing vacation plans and travel tips with another mom, when I asked her if the trip she was p...

I am 47 today. Forty-seven! Definitely an age I used to think of as "old." Didn't we all? I mean, my parents were 47. M...

I fell in love with the power of a perfectly-crafted sentence when I was in second grade. Ms. Davis was one of my least favorite teacher...