We Are the Sum of Our Choices

My cat is such a diva. She literally thinks she owns the place. No matter where I am in the house, or what I am doing, she wants to be...

There's a building in San Francisco that caught my eye when I was there this past week. Unlike the other buildings that shaped the...

The other day, my cat almost made me fall down the stairs. I was holding a cup of coffee in one hand and my laptop bag in the other. All...

In eight days, it will be exactly eight months since we moved into our new house. There have been minor things to fix since then, but all...

Fall is my favorite time of year. We're not quite there yet, but we will be soon. I can't wait to break out my sweaters, boots and jeans!...

I put my garbage out this week on garbage day (Wednesday). Had the boys bring the garbage cans in at the end of the day. Assumed all...

If you could record any scene from your life so you could watch it over and over again, which one would you choose? This was the question...

A stop sign. A rainbow. An intersection. One forces you to put on the brakes, one shows you the beauty after a storm, and one presents...

Yesterday I was out in the sunshine and the heat at my son's baseball game. It was a beautiful day to be outside, but the sun beating...

I have never in my life had a green thumb. In fact, my thumb is black as midnight. People give me live plants and flowers and I admire...

It's that time of year again. A time for traditions and special moments with family. Friday night I nearly had a Christmas tradition...

On the last trip my boys and I took to Seattle, Jacob helped finish a complex jigsaw puzzle that my uncle and cousin had been working on...

Life is like a book. Actually, not just any book. A choose your own adventure book (shout out to the 80's for those of us old enough to...

Trust. Five simple letters, strung together to form a word so meaningful to our lives. Everything we do in life takes a certain level of...

At work and at home, there are days when it feels like everything I am trying to do is impossible...like trying to nail jello to a tree....

I often wonder what goes through my cat's head when I am running around the apartment, trying to get everything done. Or what she...

Some days it feels like life is incredibly complicated, full of people that need things from me, meetings to run off to, and so many...

This week I definitely felt like that bug on the windshield.  I was desperately trying to keep things together, flailing about as the...

A scoresheet from mini-golf, a smelly pair of gripper socks from the trampoline-jumping place, and three quarters. That's what I saw...

On our flight into Seattle last week, I took in the view from the window of the plane and thought about all of the life going on 30,000...