It's 11pm, but I'm hurriedly doing a once-over on the house because we have friends coming over first thing in the morning. My h...

They grow up. Your mom warns you. "Don't blink, it all goes so quickly," she says. "One day you're changing dia...

The problem with writing is this: there are too many words, too many ideas; popping up like springtime dandelions, ripe to be carried awa...

Last night I watched some TED videos. I needed inspiration. I needed to slide back into my teaching sweet spot. I wanted to see something tr...

Somewhere after midnight Saturday but before the sun popped up with its bright hello on Sunday morning, we put down our bags and laid down ...

The past few weeks have been too full and too frenzied to summarize here, but I'll try with a list: Road trips, especially with 5 chi...

The truth is, I'm a highly anxious, easily stressed lady.  Granted, if you see me out in public, you'd probably never notice this.  ...

It seems I have two modes I live in, one in which I ping-pong around all energized and happily eating up life, doing the things I love, imme...

A few weeks ago I decided that I was definitely, no matter what, come what may, taking January 27 off from work.  One of my best friends was...

Yesterday, I drove through a roadblock. I wish this were a beautiful or simply witty analogy for a major milestone of my growth, reflectin...