It is loud living downtown. Sometimes I forget just how noisy it is until I slip back home to a smaller Midwestern town. Stepping onto my parents’ porch at 10 o’clock at night is eerily quiet. Society is moving away from having quiet unplugged lives. We are...
So my inner first grader does not want to write this blog. I feel a kind of dread similar to the feeling I would get before the “testing” in gym class for the darn fitness patch. So as I hold my breath, here is the news I am reluctant to deliver….I have yet to do a...
I am officially 33 years old and while the dreaded question of having children slowed for a few years, I guess it is time for a resurgence. Since getting engaged and married eight years ago, I have felt like I have been swimming upstream by not following the societal...
So I want to start off by noting, this post was supposed to go out shortly after my last….but then our server decided to die and I had a Chicken Little moment-you know “the sky is falling, the sky is falling.” As some of you may have noticed there was not a cute...
It has haunted me since grade school. The pull-up. I remember each spring striving so hard to conquer the pull up so that I could finally earn the presidential or national physical-fitness patch, which at the time would have really helped me gain some “cool kid”...
