The doctor I’ve chosen, in our small quirky town no less, looks the part of an eccentric artist who’s stepped right out of the heart of Santa Fe. On any given day, she has purple fabric woven into a ...

  I am one lucky girl. Not only did I marry the barista who stole my heart in college, but he came with coffee shop-owning friends and a coffee-roastery-owning one. It seems that everywhere we went this past week, ...

There comes a time in life when things just make sense. I don’t think that I’d necessarily call it “perfect sense” or “right sense” or even “better sense;” it’s just different. And it feels completely natural. These specific “things,” ...

We had a mighty trip this weekend, filled with adventure as only this little family can do it. We flew to Oklahoma. We road tripped around the state. We stayed with and got loved on by some really great ...

This past weekend, we were invited to a friend’s family cabin in the mountains. I love quiet time in the mountains…that kind of time during which you hear things that you might miss in the loud of every day ...

The tides pull me, always. Our family in Michigan graciously carted us across the middle of the state so that we could play here, at Lake Michigan. The sand was so fine, so unlike the beaches in the Florida ...

We spent the majority of today in one of our most favorite spots in Michigan – Ann Arbor. It’s mostly our favorite because of this place. Truly. Hank said that when they interview people before hiring, their first question ...

Family is essential because we all yearn to feel like we belong to something greater than ourselves.

We dedicated an entire day of vacation to Key West, with the sole intent being to tour Hemingway’s house and find some polydactyl cats. The thing is, Key West is unlike any of the other islands. If I had ...

As in most relationships, Hank and I do a lot of negotiating and compromising and supporting. You know, give a little, take a little. When we met, we both lived in Oklahoma, but Hank and his buddies took trips ...