When somebody dies, they tend to get elevated to an untouchable godliness that can only be bestowed upon those who…

Yesterday we came home from Ellie’s tennis lesson and I rushed to the kitchen to re-heat leftovers and boil corn…

When I started teaching at my current school, they placed me in the reference room of the library. I was…

Not quite 12 in this picture, but only 2 years off. What a dork. I started babysitting as soon as…

When my first child was born 10.5 weeks early, I was exiled to a hospital room at the end of…

Me in Yosemite, 2005. Baby fat, oh boy!  My idea of what my life should look like was very linear…

“They were staring at us,” Kenneth would say, smirking. This always amused him. “No they aren’t,” I would insist. “Yeah…

This is a riskier essay to put out there (more so than Wimpy Texter!), but I’m going to do it…

When Kenneth passed away, I thought I needed to write down memories about him for the kids, and maybe for…

I feel like we are all searching for a magic bullet answer about to how to prevent feeling negative emotions.…