I do not get to do much for myself these days.
After all - I am a military spouse, a parent of four little kids...
Y'all, I am not that into sleep.
If you gave me eight hours of uninterrupted spare time, I would rather spend it reading, exercising, going...
Our busy, complicated lives sometimes bring a wave of negative emotions: sadness, jealousy, depression, grief, anger, confusion, anxiety, and stress. It is all too...
As a mother and a military wife, I find that sometimes I'm just burnt out.
Life is busy, to say the least. And because of...
I know I'm not alone when I say I am overwhelmed. I am exhausted. I am burned out.
It started with working from home in...
It sounds catchy: the Quarantine 15.
In case you haven’t been on social media way too much lately (like I have), the Quarantine 15 refers to...
Someone knew we'd need Frozen II in 2020.
I'm not necessarily talking about the amazing people at Disney+ who released it months ahead of schedule....
"How's that New Year resolution working for you?"
That's what the marquis sign at the local swim club would read this time of year at...
I am comfortably curled into the left end of our sofa with my "Don't Stress Do Your Best" Threshold mug from Target. I slowly...
I recently got my hair cut.
It is nothing fancy—just a standard bob-sort of hair cut where the front is probably a little longer than...
I am an idealist. Since I was a little girl, I’ve held this innate belief of ideals over practicality. I don’t look at facts. I...
I once wrote a paper in college about the movie “Groundhog Day” and Nietzche’s doctrine of eternal recurrence: would you choose to live the...
Military Lifestyle
Normalized Overwhelm
Over the Edge
I was standing in the kitchen, washing dishes and doing mental math: I was trying to figure out how to get the...
