I’m always searching for stories. I love to wander through the antique store or vintage shop and imagine all the lives these objects have...

My children love me with a violent force. Their energizer bunny energy knocks me over, their exuberance bruises. I lean over, they pounce...

Raleigh, NC: The puzzle was in the three-year-old’s possession for less than 48 hours when the piece went missing. After the initial...

I walked into an antique store on Friday, spent an hour sorting through the remnants of other people's lives, the pieces someone else...

The weather was perfect; an early-spring stretch of seventy degree days with blue skies overhead, the puffy cotton ball clouds in the sky...

Dear children— When I put down my book to tuck you in for the seventh time, I’m really saying: I love you. When you want the last bag of...

I made it to page 18 before I decided there was no way the magic this book promised could work for me. I’d heard person after person rave...

The year I was born, my name landed at 20 on the girls “Top Baby Names” list. For the decade overall, it came in at 23. It’s no surprise...

I love choosing a word of the year; it helps me be intentional about a focus for the year and is a simple way to keep myself on track. I...

I love real Christmas trees–the fresh, piney scent, walking through rows of them, lined up at the Christmas tree farm, waiting to be...

In honor of Halloween, something a little different on the blog today. Read on for a spooky story... if you dare! A flash of light blinks...

The bookbags are packed. The first day of school chalkboards are ready. The alarms are set. Tomorrow morning, it's back to school. But...

I settle into my hot pink desk chair, a mug of hot coffee in my hands, and gaze out the window. Below me, tracing the sidewalk in front...

Obsessively track vaccine information. Sign up for all “leftover dose” opportunities to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Abandon...

We are limping to the end of this crazy school year, where I have done all the things from our kitchen: supervised virtual first grade,...

Most of the last year has faded into an indistinguishable blur—day after day, we do the same things. One virtual school day blends into...

She hears footsteps above and pauses, trying to tell which of her children are awake. Throwing the blanket off her lap and pushing her...

The Girl from Berlin is a World War II perspective you don’t come across often in historical fiction. The book is told in popular style...

“Do you have a boyfriend?” he asked. “No,” she answered. The football game ended and as the parking lot emptied, they danced. He knelt...

I don’t leave the house much these days. And when I do, it seems like I always find myself sitting in one parking lot or another. So if...