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About the time I started college, I recall a change happening in my home. My family would all get together for some holiday and the […]

Here are some of my fruitless attempts at getting my family to pitch in around the house: I have also left the toilet bowl cleaner laying […]

“Aslan,” said Lucy, “you’re bigger.” “That is because you are older, little one,” answered he. “Not because you are?” “I am not. But every year […]

I’m used to being asked what I want for Mother’s Day. Typically, I don’t have an answer. I suspect this is true for many mothers. […]

Last weekend, we finally watched the movie Instant Family. I sobbed all the way through it. When I asked my husband what he thought, he said that […]

I’ve been under a lot of stress lately. This isn’t really anything new. Life is busy. Teaching is a profession that is both physically and […]

I wrote this blog with pen and paper. Not because I wanted to return to the simple way of writing where ink flows out upon […]

Twenty years ago, I was pregnant with my first born child. We were living in the lower level apartment in the house of our dear […]

Dear Mom, I’ve felt the weight of the things you are feeling. I have been in that hard place. Maybe the details are different, but […]

My life is just the way I dreamed it would be when I was a little girl. My life is nothing at all the way […]