Melissa

It’s Hard to Grow Up

July 24, 2026

Growing pains are showing all around me. In all the various stages of life that my kids are in, each one is being forced to let go of what is behind to forge on toward what lies ...

Scattered

July 11, 2026

Last night I stood in the kitchen with Chad and asked him if he thinks my brain is working okay. I had had two incidents in the past couple of days of not being able to think of ...

Choose Better Words

July 3, 2026

Our four year old loves to sing. She comes home from church singing snippets of tunes she learned in Sunday school, and the other day she launched into a loud version of "Oh, Be ...

The Lost Art of a Wandering Mind

June 26, 2026

Stastics show that human beings are more bored than ever. We're more bored during work interactions, more bored during social interactions, and we're bored when cell phones are ...

To My Teen-aged Self

Weak Moments

What Houses, Marriage, and Ax-murderers Have in Common

When Technology Takes Over

Love Not Lost

Too Cool for Ski School

A Letter to my Five Month Old, on the Occasion of her 154th Day of Life

The Lonely Hours

This Post has Nothing to Do with Chewing Gum

The Baby Chase

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