The perfect thought at the perfectly wrong time

I'm glad my blog hasn't been overtaken by bots wanting to share inappropriate content (why is that a thing?), like a garden being ov...

Well, this happened yesterday.  I was heating up some oil to fry something--actually I was going to make churros and hot chocolate fo...

The whole premise of this post may seem odd because the audience could be the same category as the subject, but I don't think anyone rea...

We had our ward's Christmas party last night. Normally I would just show up and babysit my kids, like I do, but last night was different...

I wasn't quite prepared for being as alone in the world as I felt I was after moving to NC. I thought that the proximity I had to people...

One year ago, I arrived on a plane in Raleigh, North Carolina, with my family. After leaving Utah the week before, we spent some time in Aus...

I read a post recently titled " This Stage of Life? It's Hard ." It resonated with me, as I'm sure it could with arguably ...

There was a shooting in our neighborhood last week. Where we live seems to be in a bit of a pocket. A few blocks away in certain directions ...

Strange things get lost in the moves. I get stressed out about lost stuff and can't forgive them for being missing. Not good at letting ...

One thing I didn't necessarily anticipate about being in a new place was this uncomfortable self-consciousness and hyperawareness that I...