To summarize a year of one’s life in a brief blog post begins with a series of questions: What mattered? What didn’t? What was insignificant to most but stood out to us? What stood out to others even though it…
My Third Year as a Second Wife
Lessons Learned; Lessons Shared
The Captain’s Corner I spent this past week teaching high schoolers in an aviation camp that was offered by a local flying school. The activities included ground school on aviation-related subjects (weather, theory of flight, navigation, and federal flight regulations).…
Entertaining Made Easy: 3 Hospitality Hacks
You’ve tested one of our “Come on Over Recipes,” and you’re ready to take the next step and invite someone over for a meal, for a yummy dessert, or for a friends-and-family game night. Or maybe you’re an experienced hostess…
Change Happens: 3 Positive Elements to Focus on when It Does
The tarp that covered our “leftover” earthly goods (i.e., the ones that we hadn’t sent in the moving truck a few days earlier) appeared to flap excitedly down the highway as Joe drove his little red truck in front of…
But I’m Not a Mom
This post first appeared on the blog on May 9, 2014 and again on May 6, 2016 and May 12, 2017. Though I have removed one paragraph and tweaked a few words because my marital status has changed since the original post,…