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...

This past weekend we decided to try Escape the Room .  It was really fun. Escape the Room is a game where you are in a room filled with pu...

It's taken some time since election night to get my thoughts in order. Watching the returns made me panicky.  The next morning I felt ...

If I really wanted this blog to be entertaining I would simply write about my brothers all the time.  Either of them is an easy go-to topic ...

When I was in high school I remember walking out of a local grocery store past a man collecting donations.  He may have been a Shriner, and...

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...

Before the past year slips too far from memory I want to take a moment to reflect upon the VSA convention I attended back in November.  It w...