The other day I arrived at the entrance to my local grocery store with one shoe on, one shoe off. Just twenty yards prior, the strap of...

The other day I watched two people sing a song on YouTube and I lost my mind. I’m still thinking about it — and the tears still come. I’m...

I have a talent for catastrophizing, but I also have a talent for fun — two poles on the orb of my head that account for the pull in...

I know I am loveable because I love myself. Not in the sense that you’re thinking — beautiful self-love and acceptance, which I’m working...

Recently, I’ve been flooded with proof of how special people can be, and I’d never have seen it if I hadn’t paid attention. It’s easy for...

My sister and I had a conversation with my mom the other day about how my siblings and I will decide who gets what objects when my mom...

Oh, grief, you ruthless friend, what will you teach me today? You showed up in my car the other day and all I wanted was to shove you out...

The other week I was with a group of my husband’s extended family, most of us there from out of state. We were gathered in our Airbnb and...

Back in high school, a Homecoming dance, an eavesdropped conversation, and a friend in the throes of childbirth, merged to place me in a...

I was in the kitchen listening to the piano fill the one-story house, the notes bouncing off the wood floors, the wood wall, and high...

We can see ourselves in everything. We can mirror everything, too. For example, I can see myself in the stately oak tree in my front...

When I wake in the middle of the night, I hear the rain battering the windows and my wherewithal. Where am I? I’m awake in the wild of...

Cranium. This was his word. “Can you please give me the definition?” he asked. Cranium. The part of the skull that encloses the brain....

I opened the curtains in my bedroom the other morning and there she was, Forsythia, on the side of my driveway making her flowery...

I was sitting upstairs at home as my husband watched a movie downstairs when a sinuous tune spilled out of the TV and traveled up the...

Last August, out of nowhere, my mom’s eightieth birthday dropped from the sky. Maybe it’s better to say it floated down slowly like a...

The most surprising discovery I made when my family moved to Turkey for a year for my husband’s work was the odd fact that the world...

The Division of Motor Vehicles, or DMV, is one of the most beloved places in America. If you don’t live here in the U.S., please know I’m...

Yesterday, I woke before the alarm and had some time to kill. Isn’t it sad I’d do that to time? Time is precious, and yesterday I chose...

We get together two to three times a year. Nancy is the driving force behind our gatherings. After enough time has passed since our last...