When I was in high school, I decided that I needed to like coffee. My friends had started liking coffee. A few even worked at coffee shops before Starbucks came to our town, and so they would make me coffee drinks with syrups and whipped cream, and I would try to enjoy them. But coffee…
Someone asked me recently if my kids ever just wake up cranky. And I wanted to say, “Oh my good-golly-gosh-are-you-kidding-sister, YES.” I wake up cranky. Sometimes all of us wake up cranky. Or tired. Or out of sorts for one reason or another. It happened on our first day of school this year. Thank goodness…
I feel like I should tell you about my table. It came to me like this: I made a space for it. It was last Monday actually, and I was feeling very “life-is-so-out-of-our-control.” {I’ve been working on that lately — rolling with it.} I will let things be out of control, I say to…
There’s going to come a time when it gets old — this having one car thing. But for now, on this snowy afternoon, it’s pretty OK. I think it helps that it’s not forever. I was thinking about not-forever recently — my kids were taking Christmas break seriously, playing lots of video games and enjoying…