Connor and Helen Grow Up

When I take breaks, I never know whether to start from the present and work backwards, pick out a few highlights, or try and cover what'...

Helen has been playing violin for a couple of years at this point - and a few weeks before Christmas, she graduated to Book 2 in the Suzuki ...

I have still not come up with an adequate New Year's resolution. I like to stack the deck on these things so I know I can succeed (e.g....

I wasn't sure how yesterday was going to go. I knew in my head that the electoral college wouldn't save us. Wouldn't protect us ...

This is the obvious time of year when we take a moment, look around, and decide what positive change we can bring. It's natural, because...

I made possibly the two best apple pies of my life last week. One, I gifted to Helen's class. One stayed at home for my own Thanksgiving...

I am a from-scratch baker, through and through. My only regular exception is brownies, because I'm somewhat convinced that box brownies ...

My mother's mother spent her life raising a house full of children - which could not have been a small task. She was industrious in ways...

Yesterday, I sat with Connor and Helen and watched Hillary's concession speech. I'd seen it live, but wanted them to be able to watc...

I have reminded myself at least a hundred times in the last 24 hours that moms have one common trait - and that is: we get back up. Lo...