As 2020 came to a close on this day last year, I exhaled a prayer of thanks. After all, it was an awful year. As ever, December is a month of anticipation, reflection, and hope for me. Looking back to look forward if you will.

As 2021 began, I didn’t…

Our family’s dream of nearly twenty years came true this summer. I count myself blessed to have spent two months on the road in our new RV. It was all the things we’d hoped for and more.

But this isn’t about the amazing trip we had. Sure, we saw many…

As with last year, 2021 has brought a unique set of challenges. It also continues to reveal important insights to me. As life inches closer to normal (whatever that was), the demands of pre-pandemic life continue to creep back in.

It will take intentionality to avoid getting sucked back into…

Three years ago, I started writing a manuscript. It was a story idea that had been knocking around in my head for a couple of years. Unfortunately, I wrote myself into a corner. Not having done any outlining, I had a premise, but no clear trajectory or idea for an…

My family just returned from a two-month road trip. Seriously, the stuff of dreams. After 18 years of teaching, my husband and I finally had a 100% work-free summer and traveled the country with our children. It was pure magic. We’d hoped for this kind of summer for many years…

A lesson learned (again)

If there’s anything we can learn from last year and this one, it’s that hardship sometimes shows up unexpectedly. Predicting it is futile. It simply arrives and wreaks havoc if it feels like it. We don’t get a say.

Covid-19 behaved like a spreading wildfire, raging and roaring its way…

I’m a lawbreaker (sometimes)

I’ve been pulled over about seven or eight times in the thirty years since I started driving. Running a stop sign, speeding, expired registration, tail light out — all illegal things. No question, I was wrong. I’ve also had two fender benders where the police were involved. The only time…