When I was 8 years old, my parents gave me a set of books for Christmas that remains, to this day, one of the coolest gifts I’ve ever received. They were beautiful. A matched row of hardback books in soft colors with gold lettering, with titles guaranteed to make any young girl a lifelong reader, […]
Mamas in Afghanistan. It Could Work
As summer rolls forward, it seems everyone’s talking about family vacation plans, including plans to send young offspring off to theme parks, famous campgrounds, and animated wonderlands with grandparents, giving moms and dads much-needed breaks to be adult couples instead of parents for 2 blissful weeks out of the year. When Jake was 6, we […]
Golfers Call It a Mulligan. I Need One For My Life
Several years ago, I was a court reporter, reporting depositions and public hearings around the Pacific Northwest. Since I didn’t work for the State, these proceedings didn’t take place in courthouses or major cities. We’d go to whatever town the witnesses lived in and set up our laptops wherever we were directed to be. We […]
Going Out Tonight? Be Sure to Let Us Know!
Just received another notice from Facebook that in this season of dinners out with friends and trips out of state to see the fam, we should avoid posting our holiday plans on Facebook until AFTER we get home. Seems an unfortunate side effect of sharing our upcoming itineraries with 850 of our closest friends is […]
Nature Road Trip? Yeah, No.
To celebrate these last few glorious, warm dog days of summer, Kenny presents me with his Big Idea for the weekend: We hop on his motorcycle (me on the back, completely obscuring my ability to see anything except the back of his helmet or my life flashing before my eyes every time an 18-wheeler roars […]
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