I’ve been thinking about how contradictory life can feel, specifically about knowing when to hold on to something and when…

Approaching the first day of spring, I think about how we are entering a new season in so many ways.…

When you are young, birthdays are milestones. Becoming a toddler. Finally in school. Teenager. Sweet Sixteen. Voting age. Drinking age.…

It’s February, my birthday month. This will be the last year of my thirties, which somehow managed to be one…

Happy New Year, everyone! Another year came to a close, another winter break over. The kids and I didn’t do…

The other day I was driving to pick up my curbside order of groceries and it hit me that I…

I was finishing the last of Thanksgiving dinner clean-up when I called my grandmother. She lives two hours away, and…

One day, the kindergarteners were being tested over Zoom. It was loud. So-and-so’s family didn’t read the email and couldn’t…

I was thinking about this older lady named Dorothy, who used to pack us Japanese food after temple service in…

“He has an obstruction in his intestines,” the vet said over the phone, his accent strong, some of his words…