We had been planning the vacation since February. Not planning the way some families plan, with spreadsheets and booking windows and optimized packing lists. Planning the way Bruce and I […]
My daughter, Ava, is twelve, and until this summer, she’d given me almost no practice at being suspicious of her. She was the kid who reminded me when I forgot […]
I was a regional sales manager when I married Carl. I want to say this first because it is the thing that gets lost in the story of the years […]
The first thing I ever bought for Lucas was a pair of shoes. Not because he needed shoes specifically. He was three weeks old. Three-week-old babies do not need shoes. […]