Coaches as role models
Down at the little baseball diamond, the parents of little league players sit through most weather conditions on steel bleachers that are excruciatingly hot in the summer, freezing cold on those fall and spring evenings and when it rains? They can collect puddles with the best buckets made. We frequently trade stories ...
Pen Review: Cross Edge
It's funny to me, and probably to her as well, but my friend April developed a cult-like following after this post. I would be remiss if I never talked about her again, especially in the context of another special part of our lives that she and I share: We love school supplies. ...
Book Review: Things We Didn’t Say by Kristina Riggle
Some people lead lives full of problems. In Things We Didn't Say by Kristina Riggle, 26-year-old Casey has a mess of them. She's engaged to Michael, a man 10-years her senior, who has three children with an ex-wife who is a non-recovering alcoholic with multiple mental disorders. Casey's secrets come back to ...
A tisket a tasket
Every now and then, when I feel a lot of stress or pressure, I find myself reciting old nursery rhymes in my head. Mother Goose was a favorite when I was a child and I may not be able to remember entire stories, but a phrase here and there will pop up like a ...
Loss and coping
As he walked through the door with the largest pink flower I'd ever seen, he grinned and talked about how he'd found it on the ground and wasn't it beautiful? It truly was. Fragrant and bulbous and clearly picked from the yard of one our neighbors. He'd taken to doing this lately ...
Unlikely motivation
As I came down the stairs, I could hear Sophie's feet pad the floor as she 'danced' in circles. She does this when she's excited and it had been a more recent occurrence this week, more so than other weeks in the past because she's had good reason to be happy. My dogs ...