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…
June 12, 2025 A fabulous girls’ day out in Cincinnati, Ohio I like to celebrate my birthday in somewhat epic fashion each year – and especially for the “big ages” ending in zero or five….
June 5, 2025 The TV show Forever echoed advice I gave my daughter I felt validated as a parent while watching the 2025 Netflix reboot of the classic Judy Blume novel Forever. Warning: this blog post contains…
June 2, 2025 5 reasons to take photos – and BE in photos – today If there’s one thing I’m passionate about, it’s taking photos and documenting all the beauty in our lives. It’s all too easy to forget…
May 29, 2025 We finally found the cause of our daughter’s neverending nausea For as long as any of us can remember, our kiddo has suffered from terrible tummy troubles. When she was younger, we were frequent…
May 26, 2025 How to rock a long-distance sibling’s world on their birthday Maintaining and growing relationships can be challenging when living far apart for decades. Long-distance love relationships are probably the hardest, but being far away…
May 19, 2025 Harrison Ford is still amazing at 82 A few male actors made a lasting, lifelong impression on me when I was growing up; Harrison Ford was one of them. When the…
