I didn’t learn how to ride a bike as a kid. People always ask me how that’s possible. I did have a bike when I was a kid. It was pink. I ...

Sometimes you think and pray and write pros and cons lists and worry and wring your hands and then finally make a decision. Other times, ...

Last week, Little Brother had his tooth capped. He did great during the procedure but afterward he dealt with the weird feeling of a numb...

A few weeks ago, I had a rough Wednesday. Dinner was wild enough that I asked my husband if he needed back up. I said I didn’t have to go...

I just finished reading the second book in the Outlander series, Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon. (Ok, skimming the end. It was not ...

We’re Episcopalians. Whoa. It feels good to say that. We were secretly, even to us, Episcopalians for many years. When we first got marri...

I dated a guy one summer in college who was constantly using his teeth to open containers, untie knots in boot laces or to hold things. T...

I wrote this several months ago but couldn’t make myself share it then. I’m behind schedule posting this week because I had a sick kid ho...

I’ve been thinking about thresholds. I’m allergic to raspberries. It took me several years to figure it out because usually I was eating ...

I carry too many things. That’s probably true of most people. We hold onto heavy things that we don’t need to, maybe even things that don...

We’re coming up on our ten-year wedding anniversary. We have lived in 8 houses, in 4 states, and 2 countries. The thing is, even when we’...

Yesterday at 7:30am my three-year-old yelled, “This is the best day of my life!” We were walking home from walking Big Brother to school....

“You have a testing problem,” she told me gently, skating next to me, trying to calm me down. "Bash, we see you do these things. We know ...

Getting kids to the Christmas Eve service dressed in their adorable Christmas outfits can be a struggle. It can be an even bigger struggl...

I recently spent hours trying to renew my domain name. I’d gotten several emails about it. I kept thinking, “Oh yeah, I need to take care...

So remember last week how I was going to give myself the gift of time? I was going to give myself time to work on derby skills, time to w...

At roller derby practice on Sunday we did our monthly skills tests. During practice only people who are level four and higher get to prac...

One Halloween my oldest son had gotten his piece of candy and was reaching for another one for his baby brother. The woman wrenched the b...

Recently I was in the elevator with a neighbor. She had on a PWOC shirt and was carrying a PWOC tumbler. This was when I was still optimi...

A few times at week, at around four o’clock I decide I want to bake bread for dinner. I scour Pinterest for recipes. But anyone who has m...