School isn’t yet out as I sit with my cup of coffee to write this. However, the near turn of the calendar page promises that very soon summer will be here. Alarms can be turned off. Little girls with bed head can be welcomed next to me for morning snuggles... Read More →

Do you have your backpack? How about your lunch? Biology book? Water bottle? What time should I pick you up today? Do you have play practice? Speech? Driver’s Ed? It seems some mornings I’m a parrot, throwing out the same questions over and over again to my daughter. She’s a... Read More →

Every six or eight weeks (or ten if life has been especially crazy), I head to Wal-Mart or CVS or Walgreens to stand in what I refer to as the “aisle of dreams” where you can buy a little box of magic. I do this because I’m vain. Because I am... Read More →