We Are the Sum of Our Choices

If you could record any scene from your life so you could watch it over and over again, which one would you choose? This was the question...

I was reminded yesterday of just how tiny and insignificant I am in the grand scheme of this amazing life. Surrounded by ancient,...

A stop sign. A rainbow. An intersection. One forces you to put on the brakes, one shows you the beauty after a storm, and one presents...

Several nights this past week, my house has been overrun by teenage boys. I'm typically the only girl in the house (unless you count my...

Do you ever find yourself mesmerized by the dancing flames of a fire? The way they travel the length of the firewood and the logs crackle...

As we come to the end of 2018, I find it hard to believe that I've been blogging now for almost an entire year. After so many years of...

It's that time of year again. A time for traditions and special moments with family. Friday night I nearly had a Christmas tradition...

On the last trip my boys and I took to Seattle, Jacob helped finish a complex jigsaw puzzle that my uncle and cousin had been working on...

Life is like a book. Actually, not just any book. A choose your own adventure book (shout out to the 80's for those of us old enough to...

Trust. Five simple letters, strung together to form a word so meaningful to our lives. Everything we do in life takes a certain level of...

At work and at home, there are days when it feels like everything I am trying to do is impossible...like trying to nail jello to a tree....

I often wonder what goes through my cat's head when I am running around the apartment, trying to get everything done. Or what she...

Some days it feels like life is incredibly complicated, full of people that need things from me, meetings to run off to, and so many...

This week I definitely felt like that bug on the windshield.  I was desperately trying to keep things together, flailing about as the...

A scoresheet from mini-golf, a smelly pair of gripper socks from the trampoline-jumping place, and three quarters. That's what I saw...

On our flight into Seattle last week, I took in the view from the window of the plane and thought about all of the life going on 30,000...

I am grateful to be able to be writing this blog post from the patio of my aunt and uncle's guesthouse in Puyallup, Washington.  There's...

Do you remember playing Hide and Seek when you were young, and the thrill you felt when you found that perfect hiding spot? Sitting...

Yesterday, Ryder hit his first ever home run over the fence at his baseball game. It was amazing to watch the perfect arc of the ball as...

If life had a reset button, would you push it? What would you change? Are there decisions you wish you had made differently, or not made...