I love to take meals to people. You got a sick kid? Lemme bring you a meal. Your husband is in the field all...
My eleven-year-old still sleeps with his teddy bear. When I tuck him and his teddy bear in at night, these are moments that I live...
11 November Military Apparel was established in 2020 by the husband and wife team of Courtney and Tyler, an OIF Army Veteran. After not...
Last Thanksgiving I felt that a boulder sat on my chest as we gathered with friends to share what we were thankful for. We...
“Is that your dad again?” my husband asked me. I felt a knot in my stomach. “Yep. Third time today,” I said. I felt torn....
I love to read and have found joining a Book Club can be a great way to make friends as I've moved around the...
Four children. Some dogs. The cat. A hamster. And neighborhood kids running in and out of my house. It take all of a hot...
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash   “I hope we don’t see you for awhile,” the nurse said as she waved goodbye to me on my...
“You doing ok?” I asked my friend.  “I don’t know,” she said as we walked along the trail. “I just feel…” she paused searching for...
A few years, I was at a farmer's market during the last week of October when the gal running the veggie stand said, "All...
Halloween is fast approaching!  Does that statement make you cheer or make you groan?!  I used to be the sort of person who dreaded Halloween...
Sometimes I have to be the witch and set some boundaries. One of these boundaries is that we can't start talking about our Halloween...

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Normalized Overwhelm

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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...