September 20, 2023 My top favorite waterfalls around the world I may be in my mid-life, but I still find new things to enjoy and obsess over. Case in point: waterfalls. I took these…
September 13, 2023 Hubby planned a surprise roadtrip to a tunnel waterfall E and I send each other a ton of reels on Instagram. Sometimes they are funny cat videos. Other times, they are about heartwarmingly…
September 11, 2023 When you look back on 9/11/2001, what do you remember? I’ve never written about 9/11 in any meaningful way on this blog. I mentioned it briefly in my post about the time I interviewed…
September 6, 2023 Motherhood is hard. Moms rock. Blast from the past: This post was originally published in February 2012. How adorable that I thought motherhood was hard back then, when I…
August 28, 2023 We gained two amazing daughters thanks to Youth For Understanding (YFU) I’ve written many stories here about our year with our beautiful Thai daughter Napa. She came to us through the Youth for Understanding (YFU)…
August 26, 2023 How to turn a 1,000-mile road trip into an epic adventure Have you ever taken a girls’ trip with your best friend? It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I honestly haven’t…
August 14, 2023 Long live Pee-wee Herman, who normalized being weird and silly When the news of Paul Reubens’ death broke last month, I felt sad and nostalgic the way I do when any GenX icon passes….
August 12, 2023 My heart breaks for beautiful Maui Long-time readers of this blog know that our family loves the magical island of Maui. E and I spent our babymoon in Maui –…
August 9, 2023 Learn to play an instrument at Lewis Center Musicologie We’ve embarked on several fun new adventures already this summer. We took a family trip to Kauai. Z has been petsitting a ton in…
August 5, 2023 People don’t realize that Jet’s makes great calzones I’ve already written about my love of Italian bread and cheese sculpted into a slinky stromboli. Truly, bread and cheese in pretty much any…