I don’t know about you, but I’d never intentionally drop a blender jar full of smoothie ingredients on the kitchen floor or purposefully let a glass baking dish slip out of my hands and shatter all over the place.
At my house, we call these messy scenarios accidents. There’s no other way to describe them.
My girls have been back to school for almost two weeks now, and I’ve spent much of that time getting caught up, organized and settled—mentally as well as physically. The work is ongoing—when you’ve been shoving stuff in cabinets and running off to the next thing for months, it takes …
Until a few months ago, I had never applied to be on a book launch team before. For one thing, I don’t especially like writing book reviews (though I do love reading them). And then there’s always the uncomfortable (though probably remote) possibility that I might not want to endorse …
Last year, we started planning a family vacation to Homer, Alaska, to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. Randy spent the latter half of his childhood there, and, while we visited soon after we were married, we’ve not been back since. We were excited about returning to one of the most …
Life has been a whirl of planning, processing, organizing, grieving and traveling lately. While all that has been important, necessary and sometimes even fun, it hasn’t left much emotional energy for writing. Rather than go another week without a blog post, however, I decided to pull the last remaining piece …
May 28 was my dad’s 86th birthday. He had been on hospice for a few days, but he was awake and even mouthed along as we gathered in his room and sang Happy Birthday to him. Less than 18 hours later, he joined my mom in heaven, five weeks after …