We Are the Sum of Our Choices

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...

Don't cry over spilled milk... How many times in your life have you heard that saying? Yesterday, when I was making breakfast, I dropped...

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....

"If you knock and it doesn't open, it's not your door." This is one of my favorite quotes, and advice I often give to others when life...

I made the mistake a few years back of swerving to avoid a deer and ended up in a ditch with a messed up front-end and two flat tires. I...

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...

If you're like me, you have a basket in your laundry room full of socks with no match.  I go through them a couple times a year and try...

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

Driving home from work one night this week, a bug landed on my windshield at a stoplight.  It was kind of a reddish brown color, a cross...

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

A rough day at work, a traffic jam on the drive home, a messy house and crabby kids when you get there. What do all of these things have...

Some days this journey takes my breath away. It's been a week of memorable moments and they have made me reflect on life and the...

It's been a whirlwind since we got back from vacation, and now it almost feels like we were never gone.  I don't want to lose the way it...

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...