I’m unusually tired for a Monday morning, which I suspect has something to do with the four year old who slept beside me last night.  As she was falling asleep, she said an unprompted “Amy Beff, I wuv you” and we all know that the unprompted ones are the very best.  I leaned down, kissed [...]

Which would you like to hear first? – — – The good: I got to have my taxes filed for free today. The bad: I thought I was going to get money back.  I’m not. The even worse: I get to write a check to the IRS for $674.00 by April 15. – — – [...]

I’m supposed to be writing a two-page minimum (which means we all know actually means a three to five page) paper for Advanced Grammar due by midnight but, so far, I’m only seven words into it unless you count my name and the header at the top because, if you do, that totally brings the [...]

… don’t think that, just because this one has arrived on the scene these last few months… … that I’ve let myself forget about this one. Miss MacKenzie is doing well; we talk on the phone some nights since we’re an hour away from each other.  It isn’t perfect, but at least it’s something.  She [...]

A list of things I’m grateful for on this sweet Wednesday morning – 1. When I’m brushing my teeth at my bathroom sink, I feel like I’m living in the perfect house for a girl in her mid-twenties mainly because my sink is really, really pretty. And then I look to the left and see [...]

On Friday night, as snow continued to fall, a picture from my darling cousin Marisa showed up on my cell phone with some very important words attached: “Bling, bling… I GOT THE RING!” I was absolutely ecstatic!  I have a very small family; Marisa is my only female first cousin (Cate is on the other [...]

And everything in time and under heaven finally falls asleep wrapped in blankets white, all creation shivers underneath and still I notice You when branches crack and in my breath on frosted glass even now in death, You open doors for life to enter You are winter. – — – both pairs of wellies appear [...]