A few months ago, I received a hand-crafted Valentine from my daughter. On the cover, “Happy Valentine’s Day” was written in gold glitter.
Inside, the message said, “Don’t shake your card too hard or all your sparkles will fall off.”
It’s so much like my daughter, to give me a card with instructions. It makes me smile to think of it even now, all these weeks later.
Last week at this time, there was snow in the forecast. Today, we’re expecting a high of 86 degrees. It’s April in Kansas, after all. I’m not a fan of waiting until the last minute. I would have preferred to have finished this post last week, not one day before …
I’m the last person to adopt any kind of new technology. Ask anyone at my house and they’ll tell you the same thing, emphatically and without hesitation. I held on to my push-button Tracfone much longer necessary, endlessly annoying my loved ones with the length of time it took me …
The week our clocks sprang forward last month, I saw an Instagram post that went something like this: “Why are we complaining about losing an hour when we just lost an entire year?” I laughed at the irony, but the caption also prompted some thoughts about 2020, the pandemic and …
It’s been a year, hasn’t it? A year of unexpected—sometimes even shocking—headlines, heartbreak, disappointment, layoffs, closures, cancellations and empty store shelves. There’s no end to the conversation about all this, especially now as we’ve moved past the 12-month mark of when it all began (or when it all ended, as …
Spring break was pretty low key for us this year. We made a quick weekend trip to see our college girl, and then mostly stayed around the house the rest of the time. Molly was deep into a book series, but she took a break one day to make soft …