August 4, 2025 I found emotional support in two unexpected places What do you do when you need emotional support, but your friends or family are not available? Like so many menopausal women, I often…
August 1, 2025 Have you tried these 5 terrific gluten-free foods? I’m happy to report that our celiac summer is progressing well. Our little family has been gluten-free for two months since our 15-year-old was…
July 28, 2025 When something you really want falls apart Setbacks are hard, and they happen to everyone. It’s tough when something you’ve been hoping, praying and wishing on a star for doesn’t come…
July 24, 2025 What if your child needs more than therapy? When your child suffers with mental health struggles, you suffer alongside as their parent. There’s nothing worse than knowing your kiddo is hurting and…
July 21, 2025 Sleeping is one of my superpowers I’ve written about napping before here, but not much about the art of sleep itself. Sleep, glorious sleep. Perhaps that’s because, as important as…
July 14, 2025 Here are my 5 favorite things for summer I’m going to tell you about my five favorite things for summer. But first, a caveat. This is not a blog that often encourages…
July 7, 2025 How to navigate a diagnosis of celiac disease As you may have read in my recent post, our sweet 15-year-old daughter was diagnosed with celiac disease earlier this summer. This was news…
July 3, 2025 Sometimes parents are afraid of the wrong thing There’s a big uproar in Lewis Center about a marijuana dispensary coming to town. There’s already one cannabis dispensary in Lewis Center, and likely…
June 30, 2025 My off-again, on-again thing with candles I used to LOVE candles. When I lived on my own, in the life I had just prior to this one, I burned candles…
June 26, 2025 Please, please, please… stop asking me to lose weight. This blog post goes out to someone special in my life. An influential person close to me whom I care about. Someone I love,…