Connor and Helen Grow Up

Tomorrow, my favorite baseball team from my childhood - the Kansas City Royals - will play in a one game wildcard play-in game. If they win,...

Since virtually the start of the school year, mornings that I drop Connor and Helen at school go like this. I don Helen's backpack and...

Today is National Play-Doh day. Helen celebrated a bit early by choosing strawberry scented play-doh as her prize from the prize box yesterd...

I ran the Virginia Happy Trails Running Club half marathon on Saturday. It was a super fun race. The tree covering was fantastic to run ben...

A few years ago, my friend started dating an ultra-marathoner - as in, he runs 100 miles at a time and runs shorter, but still insanely long...

Connor started fourth grade this year! And because third grade set the bar sufficiently low (academically) for me at least, I'm confiden...

Day 1. Announce, matter-of-factly, while getting your hair braided, that you will probably be the dumbest kid in your whole class because yo...

Dear Mrs. H., Another year has started. I am thrilled Helen will be in your class. You were amazing with Connor. I'll never forget two...

As the school year approaches, I've been thinking about how it's going to take a village to get through it. For the first time sinc...

A few years ago, Connor accompanied me to sit in the Player's Wives' Suite of the Baltimore Orioles . Among the offerings in that su...