Hi Reader, I love having them back. That's the truth underneath everything else right now. I had gotten used to the quiet while they were away at school, the kind that came and went in waves depending on breaks and visits. Now my oldest is home for good, starting his career, and my youngest is knee-deep in his internship just months from his senior year, and the house is full again. Lots of shoes by the door. Dishes in the sink. Someone always coming or going. It's a good kind of a lot, but...

Hi Reader, Something happened this week that I want to tell you about. I've been having a hard few days, kind of like when life feels like it's moving faster than you're ready for and you're just trying to keep up. I won't go into all of it, but I will say that some seasons have a way of reminding you what really matters, and this has been one of those weeks for me. In the middle of it, I posted something on Instagram about a walk I took in the woods, about being a lifelong people pleaser who...

Hi Reader, This morning I had a thought. It came out of nowhere, the way the real ones usually do. I was thinking about lunches and making them for school all those years. Then this morning, I'm making them for work. Somewhere in between the school lunches and work lunches was a lapse of what I thought was a lot of time... that's the blip. That's what I want to talk to you about today. Life doesn't slow down and hand you a moment. It moves fast. Your people come in and out, the rooms are...