Every night at bedtime my 5-year-old and I have a special routine. It's a routine he started one night. He gives me a big...
I grew up experiencing two different cultures. My mom is American and has English and German origins. My dad is originally Palestinian, but his...
It usually starts the same way. The lipstick is too dark. That crop top is not appropriate for school (sometimes not even the living...
A few months after my first daughter was born, I bought a baby carrier. She always wanted to be held, and it enabled me to...
“Everyone thinks they have the best dog. And none of them are wrong.”
— W.R. Purche
I did have the best dog. His name was Astro,...
Marriage can feel hard.
In the beginning, it isn’t. My opinion is that it shouldn’t be. It should be mostly rainbows and loving gazes and...
After having three kids and being parents for ten years, my husband and I adopted a puppy. He is the cutest little 4-pound mixed...
As I write this, I am weeks away from meeting baby No. 3. Braxton Hicks contractions are in full swing and I’m on the...
This past year, our country saw so many mass shootings; we had a very contentious confirmation process for a new Supreme Court Justice along...
Recently, when I was in line at the grocery store, I picked up a magazine that boasted "Person of the Year" on the front...
Military moms are a special breed. We move a lot. We find new houses, new schools, new churches, new grocery stores, new playgroups, new...
won·der
a feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable.
Have you had the chance to watch the 2017...
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...
