2.6 miles from my door and back. This is a beautiful land that we live in. I have known, since my body endured near-death experiences, that ...

The Professor has been in Norway at a conference all week.  When he's gone, my big kids feel like my partners.  There are small moments ...

I sat down yesterday listening to my scriptures as I cross-stitched a few lines on a sampler I've been working on for over three years. ...

1. Jakob went to his first prom.  It was surprisingly low-key.  Thank goodness my oldest was a boy because we were pretty funny trying to fi...

I was asked to write a short, spiritual, column about motherhood to be published in the Syracuse paper during the week of Mother's Day. ...

This is something I was asked to write for a religious column in our local newspaper.  You can find the link to the published article here ....

My heart is full this morning, the day after Mother's Day, one week after I attended the National American Mothers convention in Wash...

I was choosen as 2016 New York Mother of the Year.   I'm not someone who seeks after recognition, in fact it makes me quite uncomfortabl...

"You know, you can take a good mule up in the mountains, and the mule will do a lot of work for you.  But when a mule gets tired, it wi...