April 1, 2016

It’s a lesson I’ve learned over and over again. Two bottles of wine I had been saving for years, for just the right moment, had gone bad when…

March 1, 2016

When we moved to Hawaii, Nick and I had been married for 5 days. We had just spent 5 years living apart from each other, on opposite coasts…

February 26, 2016

The second we found out that mold had contaminated our household goods, the movers packed up everything and took it all back to their warehouse. They didn’t want…

February 22, 2016

“After that, things can only get better.” Stephen King is talking about writing here in his memoir, On Writing, but doesn’t this advice apply to pretty much everything…

May 10, 2015

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the moms out there! I’m so grateful for my mom, for everything she has done for me and all of the ways…

February 1, 2015

I’ve had this blog for less than a year and have been trying to post consistently for only a few months. In that short time, I feel like…