My kids are currently 23, 21, and 18. The oldest is away at college. The middle child lives in an apartment in our violin store building and...

There's this funny sense many people have that parenting means getting your kids to 18, and then you're essentially done. Sure, ther...

16-year-old Quinn has her driver's permit and has been going out for regular practice in anticipation of her first outing with an offici...

Dear Dad, Wow, what a year. We’re in this weird phase of moving out of the pandemic, while the pandemic is also still here. The beauty of be...

A couple of weeks ago, I dropped my son off at the mall to see a movie with friends. I arrived a bit early to pick him up afterward, and as ...

We dropped our daughter off at college last week. We got her set up in her dorm room. Very easy move in. She has what we're calling her ...

Last night I got to swim again for the first time in nearly a year. With the exception of occasional walks on the treadmill while watching S...

Thinking way, way back to when I had my first baby, one of the more vivid adjustments was to how relentless much of the responsibilities fee...

My kids don't watch the news. I don't really blame them. I didn't watch the news much as a child either. Only big moments intr...

This has been a rough week, logistically. Ian's out of state doing Army things for two weeks, and we're over halfway through it, b...

Sometimes life is too full.  It overwhelms.  There are days I feel so much I wind up numb. There are moments anymore where I don't kno...

As this school year begins wrapping up I want to take a moment to acknowledge the greatest development for me in my children's school at...

This is a short, grumpy post that I should probably not hit "publish" on, but sometimes this blog is my venting space, and I feel ...

My mom is amazing.  She's an amazing artist, person, and grandmother, too, not just amazing as a mom.  I'm one of only three people ...

Two of the things I most want to define myself by (aside from my relationships and my attempts at being a decent person) are my instrument m...

( *George Carlin ) Some pictures only a blogger would take.  And some situations become less annoying if they could make a good post. So...

Things are moving a mile a minute anymore, and any one of these thoughts could have been a post in a less hectic time, but in no particula...

I've always been irritated with people who are quick to dismiss Mother's Day as a greeting card holiday.  Holidays are what you choo...

All of my kids at some point when they were babies had croup.  Each time it was awful.  Each of them made a trip to the emergency room at Ch...

You are beautiful and talented and smart and amazing and funny and kind and the world is better for having you in it. You are right when y...