Tag Archives: Relationships

You know that thing when you need to just get it all out and externally process all the emotions and intricacies of The Big Problem in your life and then your friend starts trying to solve The Big Pro...

The day before had been one of the best in recent memory with my kids.  But there we were the following morning, barely even daybreak, and it was already shaping up to be one of those days that y...

Whatever season of motherhood we’re walking through, we can’t do it alone.  We need each other and, quite frankly, we make each other better. I know I’ve ...

When I think about marriage, there are definitely a few things I wish I had known before walking down the aisle to say “I do.” After becoming a wife I have had to learn the hard way of how...

The summers of my youth were different from those of today.  For one thing, we never, ever took a family vacation.  I never even thought to ask for one.  We didn’t have the money ...

I hung up the phone with the nurse and walked out of the room, numbness spreading out from my heart to my fingers.  I wasn’t pregnant, and this was the end of the line.  There would be...

The birth of our first child catapulted us into a world that I have taken to calling “dramatic hard stuff.” This is the world of hospitals and grief, of loss and fear, of other people feel...

Abraham Lincoln, Einstein, Johnny Depp and Tina Turner.  These were a few of the names that people mentioned when we were asked an ice breaker question in a large group meeting last week. &#...

When I was a little girl, my dad told me I should be a lawyer. It was nothing more than an off-the-cuff remark, but from that moment on, I determined I was going to law school. As a kid I would watch ...

I live in Washington State.  To be more precise, the western side of Washington where the saying goes: “We Don’t Tan, We Rust.” Yes, we are famous for our rain. ...