On the way to practice, Coach called my daughter. "Are you headed to practice?" "Yes." "Is your mom driving you?...

I recently attended a virtual conference and one of the sessions centered on wellbeing during the pandemic. The session organizers had parti...

COVID has induced major disruptions to my life - both personally and professionally - but trying to see the bright side. As I hold positions...

One of the biggest time saving/life hack successes our family can claim is that I cut my boys’/ husband’s hair. The fact that I do this and...

My daughter started high school this year, and I can't believe I'm old enough to have a daughter starting high school. It feels like...

For Christmas, we gave our 13-year old daughter tickets to a concert for her favorite band. She's played us songs ("Can I play you ...

2018 was intense, harried, and a blur. There were highlights, like our first international trip to Italy in June (amazing, loved every minut...

I believe in signs. Driving home from getting the kids flu shots, we heard the song "The Sign" by Ace of Base on the radio. When...

After recovering from the the good kind of pain  at the end of November last year, I developed the plain-old kind of pain that is in no way ...

“I saw J do the reading the other day at church, and at first, I thought it was you. She is becoming a young lady,” Maureen said to me on th...

I seem to always forget exactly how much pain I'm in over Thanksgiving weekend, after running a 10K on Thanksgiving Day. I'll think ...

Of course I had to attend Gizabeth's wedding party. I mean, the proposal was on this blog! Sure, I had only met her one time before in ...

I retired my personal blog a couple of years ago, but at one point, it was a very big part of my life . The importance of capturing the deta...

Every night before bed, our family of five gathers in our middle child's bedroom. It's dark except for the hallway light that shines...

I have always been a big fan of stories. I love listening to NPR's StoryCorps although I do take issue with those segments playing dur...

I have a confession. When I was initially asked whether I wanted to take over my division as chief, I wasn't 100% enthused. It's not...

Growing up, in my dreams of my future family, I always had two children. Two seemed like the perfect number. We had two in my family, my bro...

Cutter’s excellent post and the comments to follow really got me thinking. What factors go into our thoughts about whether we would do it a...

It's the ultimate geeky pseudo-holiday: Pi Day. A once in a century Pi Day, apparently.  When I came back home this morning after takin...

Last year, I spent a couple of months doubled over with post-prandial pain after dinner. We’re talking pain that would sometimes incapacitat...