Messy Days Bring Out Empathy & Team Work

Some days are pretty much like feeling your way through a dark room during a power outage—you know the lay of the land but in the dark sometimes you walk into a piece of furniture nonetheless. Still, if you’re astute enough to track the weather and know there’s a...

A Little Spring in the Air & My Step

Spring, for me, is the kind of season that is suddenly right there, all around you, with its splashes of colors and new life appearing along the roads and walkways; it brings a brightness to everything, including my spirits. Of course the return of some normalcy also...

No Second Guesses Here

Way back when, when I was in graduate school for my Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA), I took a couple of different classes in adapting novels for the screen, and, while it was an interesting course, I don’t think I ever truly understood or appreciated the...

Letting My Girls Lead the Way with Learning

At last, as we begin this new week, I am delighted our family is mostly easing back into the familiar rhythms and routines. At last, the girls appear to be pretty much healthy once again, and I am more than happy to dive back into our daily flow and patterns,...

The Cumulative Effect of Relationships

As this week gets underway, I realize my teenagers and I are headed into a Round 2 kind of week; rather than returning to familiar rhythms and routines, the younger teenager is succumbing to whatever virus the older had last week and is finally shaking. Alas, there...