August 11, 2025 5 times Cynthia Erivo made my soul explode You would have to be living under a rock to not know the magnificent human being known as Cynthia Erivo. However, perhaps not everyone…
August 4, 2025 I found emotional support in two unexpected places What do you do when you need emotional support, but your friends or family are not available? Like so many menopausal women, I often…
July 28, 2025 When something you really want falls apart Setbacks are hard, and they happen to everyone. It’s tough when something you’ve been hoping, praying and wishing on a star for doesn’t come…
July 24, 2025 What if your child needs more than therapy? When your child suffers with mental health struggles, you suffer alongside as their parent. There’s nothing worse than knowing your kiddo is hurting and…
July 21, 2025 Sleeping is one of my superpowers I’ve written about napping before here, but not much about the art of sleep itself. Sleep, glorious sleep. Perhaps that’s because, as important as…
July 7, 2025 How to navigate a diagnosis of celiac disease As you may have read in my recent post, our sweet 15-year-old daughter was diagnosed with celiac disease earlier this summer. This was news…
June 30, 2025 My off-again, on-again thing with candles I used to LOVE candles. When I lived on my own, in the life I had just prior to this one, I burned candles…
June 26, 2025 Please, please, please… stop asking me to lose weight. This blog post goes out to someone special in my life. An influential person close to me whom I care about. Someone I love,…
June 19, 2025 Our high schooler made me watch Big Mouth… and I loved it I did NOT like the adult-themed, animated TV series Big Mouth the first few times I watched it. I found it crude, vulgar and…
June 16, 2025 The one time being a picky eater paid off As I’ve written about recently, our 15-year-old daughter was recently diagnosed with celiac disease. When we first heard this, I was extremely anxious because…