Say what you will about 2016, but one thing’s for sure: it has not been boring. In fact, it’s been a whirlwind of emotions, stress eating, and tears of all kinds. Adding to the excitement of the year is the fact that for the past 11 months, I’ve been working…
They say the road to perfection is paved with mistakes and bad decisions. Or something like that. In any event, I make lots of mistakes. And bad decisions. Stupid mistakes. Silly mistakes. Laugh-out-loud mistakes. Just last week, for instance, I made the stupid mistake to try to drive on a…
When I first started this website four years ago, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. Truthfully, I’m not sure that I’m any closer to knowing what I’m doing today than I was back then. But whatever. I knew I wanted to write. But about what? All I…
I went swimming this morning. This might not sound like that big of a deal, but up until two weeks ago I hadn’t been in the water to swim laps for more than five years, fifteen years since the last time I had done anything even remotely close to something…
Little did I know, four years ago, when I sat in my friend Angie’s kitchen, this is what would happen. As I sat on a stool at her large kitchen island, and our kids flitted about making messes here and there, we chatted. We talked about kids and families. About…
A few years ago, I wrote an essay about smashing windows. Not actual windows. But the figurative windows that distort the ways that I feel about myself, the ways I feel about the world. I called it Frosted Window Syndrome, or the never-ending battle so many of us fight just…