Sitting in bed watching a gas fire in the fireplace I wonder what I would say to a younger me if I could somehow reach back in time. If I could cross the years back to when I was 15 and having one of the worst years of my life….
Last week when I did the biweekly grocery shopping event (and with several teenagers at home it is a major event) I decided what my family really needed was a splurge. We’d been rushing around doing choir concerts, ASL learning events, conferences, and job interviews and it felt like we’d…
Many, many years ago, when the internet was young, I was a fourteen-year-old sitting in a quiet house in the windswept plains of Wyoming. It was time for the annual court-appointed visit to my father’s house. He was elsewhere. Maybe working. Maybe sleeping. Maybe drunk. My much-younger siblings were in…
2018 has been an interesting year for me. To say it didn’t quite go as planned is an understatement. In January I had some really big plans and a really tight schedule planned out. There was so much I wanted to do that by March I felt burnt out and…