Joey bursts through the door, his face flushed and his eyes wild. He wears excitement like a cape as he flies over to me and throws his long...

Once again my alarm clock, aka the neighbor's dog, wakes me and the rest of my household up at 5:40 in the morning.  A full hour and a h...

It doesn't take long before it begins.   I am on my early morning run.  It is hovering just over 80 degrees, heavy on the hum...

He is growing up.  Getting older.  In a few weeks he will be starting fifth grade.  Fifth grade!  How did that happen so soon? He has go...

The bench is steaming hot and the exposed skin on my legs burns as I sit down.  I pull my ponytail holder off my wrist, gather my hair toget...

The boys are home from school and the homework is done when I wake Ben and Grace up from their naps. Snacks are handed out and eaten while w...

Just as the length of the day starts to get to me I see it. The sun, gone for what feels like weeks, is tossing butter-colored ribbons of ...

So this is what happens when I stop running for two months, add bacon to every sandwich I eat (what?), and pig out each night in front of th...

I wonder what post traumatic stress feels like.  Or survivors guilt. I am not even remotely close to the tragedy in Connecticut, I don...

This morning as I quietly opened the door and walked over to your bed I was struck by how much you still looked like my baby when you are sl...

The temperatures have dropped 30 degrees in less than twenty four hours.  One day the kids are playing outside without jackets and the next ...

Today is the big day.   I think it is saying something that the majority of us are most excited just to have it over and done with.  Th...

Even all the way over here in the midwest we are feeling hurricane Sandy's wrath.  The winds have been blowing, seemingly bending trees...

Standing in front of school, picking up the little ones from their half day and chatting with the other moms, I suddenly feel a head on my s...

I never quite know if I'm doing a good job or not.  When I was working full time I would get progress reports, and raises, and kudos, an...

This summer had all the makings of greatness.   Four kids all at an age to go swimming, travel, play outside, and have fun.  Todd's work...

I am my mother's daughter, my father's girl. I am stubborn and strong.  If you tell me that I have to do something I will want to ...

I'm up late.  Later than I normally would be but tonight is my night.  My night to watch ridiculous and embarrassing tv as I text my bes...

A bio.  I'm supposed to write a bio.  A bio that will go in the program for the symphony chorus concert along with all the other soloist...

I'm cold.  It's cold in here.  I grab a blanket from our huge blanket pile, curl up on the chair, and encase myself in the big gre...