My eight-year-old daughter, Hallie, still can’t wrap her arms even halfway around the giant oak in our yard. Our little farmhouse was built in 1930—the first in this square mile—many, many moons ago. She looks like a pint-sized ant standing [...]
I was picking weeds yesterday—knees in the dirt, earth under my fingernails. Grumbling to myself, I muttered something like, "Didn't I just do this?” Honestly, this isn’t an uncommon thought running wild through my brain. More like a broken record [...]
I ran into a parked car today. Well, it wasn’t quite as bad as that sounds. I accidentally tagged an SUV (hello white Lexus) while pulling into a parking spot at the gym this morning. Oops. I felt an unusual [...]
Imagine yourself in a dark and empty room with nothing but a deafening silence. There’s no breeze. No movement. No tick of a clock. Even the breath in your own lungs seems paralyzed. You can’t see anything but the pitch-black [...]
A few weeks ago, my kids—Hallie and Jack—locked eyes on a baby turtle who was stranded in the middle of the road in front of our house. They did what most kids would do; they panicked. They panicked and strategized [...]
As soon as the Christmas tree comes down and lights are packed away, I’m over it. Over the bitter wind and icy floors and need for a jacket just to walk to the mailbox. Unless there’s a blanket of snow [...]
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