This day. Do you have dates that to everyone else are perfectly normal, but for you, it’s something else entirely. A day that isn’t a holiday. The mail comes. The bank is open. Little Sir had school. I had work. A day without decorations, not even a Hallmark card. And …
We’re finally settled in our new house and life is beginning to take on something like a routine. Someone asked me recently if I missed California. I said no, but I miss knowing where everything is. I’m still in the space of not knowing that the grocery store genuinely doesn’t …
Have you done this “word” of the year? It’s a thing. I only know of it and never really got it. I’ve had plenty of ideas for New Year plans or goals, but not really resolutions. I love love LOVE New Year’s Day. Renewal. Clean slate. Deep breaths and here we …
I just read an article about someone wishing for a time machine so she could go back to the 1950s. I was at a Christmas party a week or so ago and someone said with longing in her throat adding an ache to the words, “Oh, to be in my …
We’ve lived in Texas a few months now and it’s surprised me how easy it’s been and yet, how different it is. I remember moving here in high school and having the same feeling. And I had it in Costa Rica too– with the added boost of a new language. …
My Grandma Smith died. Sorry to start off that way, but this is the statement I repeat to myself throughout the days now since it happened. It explains why the sky looked a shade dimmer to me. It explains why I feel the ground gives way just a little when …
