Last night Claire sat perched on the kitchen counter as I whipped up some Friday night pizza, and asked me to tell her about my experience on September 11th when it actually happened all those years ago. It was sobering to sit and discuss all the emotion and deep sadness wrapped up in that day,…
I took last week to take a break from social media. Trying to get my brain wrapped around what is happening in the world and how to sort it out for myself, how to learn, how to teach, how to take in information. Being truly present with those around me. And it has been good…
How’s that for a long title? Ha! But I wanted to take a minute to talk about my very favorite part of Christmas every single year: children-gift-exchange on Christmas Eve. Can you see how excited Claire was to give this gift to Lucy years ago? Ok sorry had to include a few more. Because it…
There was one Christmas I remember way back when Max and Elle were babies. It was the Christmas when I decided to make a photo quilt for my parents. Yes, a photo quilt, which sounds kind of funny, but that’s not the point. The point is that it was a difficult task but as I…
The beginning of May found us with these two high schoolers still going strong as best friends: (I am a little melancholy with this right at the moment since these two are missing each other SO MUCH as I write here a couple months later and they are a world apart. So crazy how life…
This is my mother: I feel heavy with love for her always. But specifically for the last couple days in preparation for Mother’s Day. The way she was… The things I don’t remember but see in pictures…they way she made me shine. The way she wore hip, plaid bell-bottoms. The way her smile and goodness…
I love how kindness spreads. Especially in times of trouble. For the last couple weeks our high school student body as well as our community has been in mourning following two tragic accidents. One of those accidents took the life of a senior student, and the other left one of Claire’s close friends in an…
Last summer I was talking with my friend who I hadn’t seen in a long time. She was catching me up with her life, and as I asked follow-up questions about one of the things she had going on, she looked at me kind of funny and told me I had commented on her Instagram…
There are lots of things in life that can wrap their tentacles into our hearts and minds, changing us either for good or for not-so-good. I think that’s why I worry so much about raising kids alongside social media these days. Well, “alongside” isn’t the best word to use for the situation our world has…