It’s around 2 o’clock on a Sunday afternoon and I’m standing in the kitchen trying to decide if I want a PopTart. Actually, I’m not trying to decide.…
“I don’t think I’m cut out for the bomb squad.” This is what I told my husband the other day in the car, as we were ferrying our…
I admit it. Sometimes I’m a creep. Not on purpose or anything. But sometimes I find myself in these situations where I’m uber-creepy. And pointing it out or…
I opened my email the other morning and saw the annual welcome letter from the elementary school principal. It included all the traditional notes about being excited to…
Summer has left me with more than just a sunburn. The bi-annual family beach reunion was a bust this year, although not because of family, because of Jesus.…
Before you ACTUALLY were pregnant… did you look forward to getting pregnant? Being told that you glow? Did you buy into this vision that being pregnant would make you…
**Editor’s note. Yes we realize these terms are out of date, the piece was published in 2015. Jeez people calm your shorts. Do you know what OTP…
Many years ago, after first having a girl, I gave birth to a son. A more experienced mother with multiple boys came to visit. She peered down at…
That was the message, scribbled on a torn, scratch piece of paper. It was a simple, easy-to-miss message, and yet it still echoes in my bones all these…
Every day my feeds deliver another picture of somebody who is missing. Desperate family and friends appeal to anyone who might have seen their loved one. Height, weight,…