MY DEVISING

I started the first sentence of this entry probably 7 times because I haven't blogged in one million days. But hey, hi, I'm here,...

I was on the phone with my brother Mark the other night. I was talking about how I find myself still telling some of the same life storie...

My whole life, I never understood suicide. Not until I was reeling with anxiety, feeling the chaos in my mind as well as in my body. I nev...

(photo by Kelsi Pritchard Photography ) I'll just separate big kid toys and baby toys , I thought. But small non-baby-friendly it...

Watching The Lion King as an adult requires a few million more tissues than I needed when watching it as a child. The kids and I put it on ...

"I want to watch the rain." I looked up from my yogurt and noticed Nova scooting her chair over to the window at my parents...

Five years ago, I went on a triple date with some of my closest friends. I ended up having my first ever panic attack which set the stag...

I just re-read my post from last year about grace, which was my word for 2016 . It was an interesting read because I had forgotten how ...

We all woke up feeling different things today. Some woke up feeling absolutely devastated. Some are full of fear, wondering how the futur...

All I was doing was listening to a story that Colt was telling in the car. Nothing crazy was happening. But it doesn't always take so...

I have been stomach sick over this gorilla thing. Partly because I am a mom of two little children who could very well have made this ...

If your kids could pick one superhero power to have, what do you think it would be? Flying? Being invisible? Shooting webs from their h...

Colt was gone for 7 days on a work trip recently. He doesn't travel a lot for his job, but the few weeks out of the year that he does...

Resolutions for this year?  Well, it's really the weirdest thing.  We turned the corner from December to January and it felt like a ...

"The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really...