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About a decade ago, my husband was out on a diamond hunt with a friend who was looking for a new wedding ring for his wife. That adventure for my husband was similar to when he goes grocery [...]

“Teach me.” “Show me how to do that.” “Can I try?” Those are some of my favorite words out of a kid’s mouth. Little guys want to do everything (especially crack eggs into the cake batter…God help [...]

I used to love Alanis Morisette back in the days of my adolescent angst. She would scream and wail about scratching her nails down someone else’s back in the hope that her ex would feel it. She [...]

If one were to evaluate the quality of my week in relationship to the quality of other weeks of my life, this week would suffer greatly in comparison. Every cell in my body is screaming from [...]

“You mock my pain,” spits Princess Buttercup at the Dread Pirate Roberts. “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” Those are some of my favorite lines from the [...]

I read something today that made me laugh. Ducks walk out of a lake, flap their wings and fly off. Good for you, duck. I wonder if you have adrenal glands. If so maybe instead of “shaking things [...]

If I had had the energy to stop and take a picture you would have seen what I saw. A beautiful flat bike path meandering through the surrounding hills. Yucca plants leaping joyously from the [...]

Sadness, anger, disappointment. They are emotions that threaten to drown us. But if we learn how to be with them, we discover that they round us rather than flatten us.

My son’s baseball team won their first game last night. It was epic. After 17 L’s they finally notched a W. One tiny, priceless, beautiful W, dangling on a hook in the scoreboard window. [...]

I got my hair cut today. And I cried. Last time I got my hair cut, I cried too. I might cry the next time it happens. Because when I look into the mirror I don’t see the face I’ve grown [...]