I turned 40 earlier this month. That same week, NPR ran a story saying studies have shown people don’t anticipate how much they will change…
I turned 40 earlier this month. That same week, NPR ran a story saying studies have shown people don’t anticipate how much they will change…
Last week I did this thing – this big thing, which I was anxious about, and had to psych myself up for – and it…
Katherine is a teenager in Texas who has been my Twitter friend for almost three years. She is in the final stretch of her Senior…
We’re at our son’s indoor soccer game, watching him wander around the court as if in search of flowers to pick. So far it’s been…
I’m seven months pregnant and digging deeper into the storage bin of maternity clothes each week. Today I pulled out “the $12 pants” and thought…
In the car on the way to work this morning, while I was freaking out my lifelong tendency to take on too much (there are…
Someone on TV mentioned “brunch” and my husband and I started reminiscing about the last time we went to brunch, a million years ago when…
At work I team-teach a course called Prepare Training.* It’s a great course, I truly enjoy teaching it, and yes, I think you should have…
This morning amid the lingering #amazonfail discussion on Twitter came the question of whether or not one should boycott Amazon.com. I responded that the only…
I’ve had this belt for 7 or 8 years. It occurred to me today that a picture of it would say more than a long…