Writer's Block

Something to think about today…and I hope this goes viral.   If you use a service like DoorDash, UberEats, Shipt, Instacart, etc., remember ...

Six and a half years ago, in August 2016, I received some of the most devastating personal news of my life: I had breast cancer. It was a su...

Sometimes, when you think too much time has passed, you head back to something or someone familiar, and it all clicks back into place...at l...

My kids are always asking me if I loved them more when they were little. I love looking at their photos and talking about how sweet they w...

My brain is ruminating.  The dictionary says to ruminate is “to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly.“  The ...

I am constantly irritated amused amazed by the stuff I read on the Internet. That it only really started in the form we now know nearly ...

I love words.  I love the way they fall together to create sentences, forming stories or poems or songs. I love to hear the jingle of...

My parents always taught us to look at both sides of something. Sometimes that meant playing the "devil's advocate," but it ...

There's a thing to understand about life...and that thing is that life is not always understandable. Curve balls can be -- and ofte...

Recently, I was reading a few reviews about some middle-grade books that are new on the market. The reviewers raved about how EVERYone sho...

Last year, Ethan and I read A. A. Milne's  Winnie the Pooh  for school. We fell in love with all the characters and Milne's fantas...

In a world that's saturated by social media, friendship is cheap. On Facebook and Twitter, we "collect" friends and follow...

There's something about this day. Emily summed it up well by saying how she likes it a little bit more than Christmas Day. Maybe it...

I'm getting really tired of all the labels we give to ourselves and our kids, trying to explain every condition/ailment under the sun....

 Top row taken of each one in kindergarten; Bottom row taken in June 2014 It's very early on the day my kids start a new school yea...

I love books. I've always loved books. I think that's what drew me into writing at a very young age. Growing up, we always had a...

Emily and Stuart on a facetime chat Happy Monday! I cannot believe that a little less than a month from now we'll be starting sch...

Happy Monday! It's our first since our summer vacation from school started. (Woo-hoo!!) And it feels good to have a lighter schedu...

Recently, my job at the newspaper has given me more than the usual amount of opportunities to teach my kids important lessons. It seems th...

There's a danger in blogging. While it's a fun way to keep track of the happenings in a family -- post pictures and/or write a b...