This body. This body is a shell of what it used to be. A plump, dimpled shell. Once angled and wrinkle-free, my face perched atop a slender neck and inviting collarbone is now creased in places (as is my neck), sun spotted in others, and rounded with no collarbone in…

It always seems that the pendulum swings too far one way and then the next. Pretty, beautiful and princess have become “bad words”. We can’t call our daughters these things because when we do, we are toppling the foundations of feminism. This is strange, as I had always thought the…

Yesterday my kids went to their first track meet. It was an important event for many reasons. It was their first school competition, and the first school competition after the lockdown marked the Covid pandemic. They rode a school bus and ran around with their friends at the meet, enjoying…

It’s strange how easily we can convince ourselves of who we are, or more importantly, who we aren’t. Many years ago, for one reason or another, I decided that I was not an outdoorsy person. …

I will oversimplify it here. But am not overstating it when I say that this has been some of the most challenging 6 weeks we have ever faced. It turnsout it is more than just fun house designs, furniture shopping, picking tiles and backsplashes, or organizing your kitchen and closets. …