Tag Archives: Relationships

The minute you discover another woman is also a mom, something shifts.  An indescribable, unspoken connection is formed and you know that you are both part of the same sisterhood. Moth...

By the time our kids reach 16 and above I have this unrealistic expectation that they should be acting more like adults than kids.  For the most part, I believe that if we treat our teens more ma...

1979. There’s 11 acres of untouched wilderness on a river in Washington State. My Dad boards a plane in Seattle, flies over for the day, walks the land, purchases the land and then flies back to...

You know that thing when you need to just get it all out and externally process all the emotions and intricacies of The Big Problem in your life and then your friend starts trying to solve The Big Pro...

The day before had been one of the best in recent memory with my kids.  But there we were the following morning, barely even daybreak, and it was already shaping up to be one of those days that y...

Whatever season of motherhood we’re walking through, we can’t do it alone.  We need each other and, quite frankly, we make each other better. I know I’ve ...

When I think about marriage, there are definitely a few things I wish I had known before walking down the aisle to say “I do.” After becoming a wife I have had to learn the hard way of how...

The summers of my youth were different from those of today.  For one thing, we never, ever took a family vacation.  I never even thought to ask for one.  We didn’t have the money ...

I hung up the phone with the nurse and walked out of the room, numbness spreading out from my heart to my fingers.  I wasn’t pregnant, and this was the end of the line.  There would be...

The birth of our first child catapulted us into a world that I have taken to calling “dramatic hard stuff.” This is the world of hospitals and grief, of loss and fear, of other people feel...