We just got back from a great trip out West that included Devil's Tower, Yellowstone, Jewel Cave, the Badlands...  Lots to say, too many...

Having my family away for a week recently was weird.  I've been away from my husband and kids before, but it's rare to have a stretc...

The first house my husband and I owned together he picked without me.  We'd been house hunting unsuccessfully around Milwaukee for a cou...

Saturdays at the violin store tend to be particularly busy.  (Seriously, if you are making a list of recession-proof industries?  Put nei...

We’ve just returned from two weeks of vacation.  Typically when Ian has his two weeks of Army training sometime in the summer I close up th...

My kids are very sweet.  They are polite, they play well together, and for the most part they are pretty easy.  For the most part.  But th...

We seem to have skipped spring entirely here in Milwaukee, which is a shame because my favorite temperatures are the upper 60’s and lower ...

I love days like this.  There aren’t enough of them for me right now and I’m really excited.  I’m still in bed after sleeping in and you kn...

It’s strange being untethered from the children and my normal responsibilities.  It doesn’t happen often, and when it does it’s like being...

Hospitals are strange places.  They are environments entirely about providing care to vulnerable people, with little in those environments ...

I am so fortunate to have spent over half my life with my husband, Ian.  I’ve written about him before in an introduction , a post about how...

I’ve never considered myself to be someone interested in housework.  Anyone who ever saw my room as a teenager could testify to that.  But ...