One day I stopped cooking dinner. Twenty years of preparing this meal every night left me feeling like I needed a break. So I took it....

I did it. I completed a 4 day Writing Workshop in a place I have never been to by myself, without knowing a single soul. I did it. ...

I write so I won’t forget the simplest, most minute details of this living sandwich unfold. Take the sun rising and setting, for example....

I don’t understand how this happened again. I was barely 26 years old, fresh and green, only teaching 3 years - and then Columbine...

I have forgotten to pray. This reminder came from a respected teacher in a random zoom room that I happened to be in at the last minute...

In the course of one week, I feel as though I have lived multiple lifetimes. While merging onto HWY 17, the dashboard on my Prius lit up...

How do we hold both things simultaneously, sorrow and joy? Like a scale in the produce department of Nob Hill measuring fruit to prepare...

I have shared many stories before, but never this one. Mainly because it has been tucked away, neatly filed in a category called: ...

Hey Mama, Can you believe the ladybugs are graduating college? Do you remember the day we came home from the hospital with two bundles of...

PSA: I use controversial words like spaghetti straps, body shaming and bra in this post. If you find those words upsetting, you may want...

While standing in line to purchase groceries just two days ago, I was gob smacked when I realized I don’t have a mom to buy a Mother’s...

To the graduating class of 2020 who got 7 out of 9 months of solid normalcy before your lives were completely turned upside down: you are...

The Questioning Seeker: a middle aged woman fighting for justice, one sacrament at a time. This post may upset some Catholics…and I’m...

When two of my teenage daughters head to SF for a concert halfway dressed, as the young folk do, I hold my anxiety in my gut like an...

I have been feeling nostalgic about the twins graduating from college in May. It's a milestone first for all of us: them as students,...

* Trigger Warning: Love is spoken about in this controversial post. Read at your own discretion * Tom and I went to listen to an...

When you’re a daughter, you want to be just like the very best parts of your mom. Whether she is an excellent cook, a lean-in listener,...

People who go to bed early are really onto something. P.W.G.T.B.E. seem to have their ducks in a row. I imagine them responsibly...

I was driving down my street when I noticed a grandfather holding a wee one, about one year or so securely in his arms, facing out. It...

I don’t care anymore… I don’t care that I am that weirdo/tree hugger who needs to forest bathe every single day. I don’t care that I stop...