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...

The more I skate derby and hang out with derby people I’m learning that it’s not about not falling down. At first, not falling was my...

April 2018: Before MUTU System September 2018: After MUTU System It happened again. Someone asked me if I was pregnant. The...

We moved to South Korea two months ago. Every time we told the Army we were willing to go OCONUS (outside the continental US) we really...

I have a new analogy for deployments. It’s like you’re taking out the trash and the bag rips and stinky brown liquid drips out all over...

Last week at summer session PWOC at the park I was sitting at a picnic table with four other women. I’d just returned from keeping Little...

We walked to our gate. I wore Little Brother in a carrier on my chest and a backpack on my back. Big Brother had a backpack and I wheeled...

A friend of mine recently said, “Your life is stressing me out.” My glib response was, “Yeah, me too.” But then I thought about the...

Minutes before I pitched my novel to an agent at the writing conference multiple people told me it wasn’t that bad. They were wrong. It...

Recently we were talking about the stories of the lost coin, lost sheep, and lost son in my Protestant Women on the Chapel class. Many of...

A few days ago Big Brother was playing in the alley with the little girl who lives behind us. I was chasing Little Brother and talking to...

A couple days ago I brought a family a meal. It was the third meal I'd brought someone that week. That's a lot even for me. I'm...

A few weeks ago I took Little Brother to the emergency room. He was throwing up dried blood. (Don’t worry. We were only there a few hours...

Advent: 1. the arrival of a notable person, thing, or event 2. the first season of the Christian church year, leading up to Christmas and...

A few years ago my friend's husband asked me to write her two letters for Mother's Day, one for her to read before their baby's arrival...