Anna played a prim and proper wife who dies in the high-school play Blythe Spirits.  She had SO MANY lines and was darling to watch. Anna is...

Ellie is always making things, beautiful things.  I love that about her. I love her.  This morning, I was running late for church and when I...

She has freckles on her nose and is my only baby who had dark hair that didn't turn light. At parent-teacher conference her teacher said...

The truth is that I am weird, I’m not someone who has ever had one best friend or one favorite ice cream flavor. I love people, I hav...

The best part about going back to graduate school at age 40, is spending ALL DAY with my favorite professor.  He carries my messenger bag ev...

I love my gang. Today, I started crying as I took a picture of Drew during the costume parade at the elementary school.  The custom here in ...

On Monday, my classes start at 1 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. It's a long day. When I got home, Ellie said she had picked out costumes for her...

I got pretty sick last week. There was an afternoon I thought I had the mumps (it is going around SU). I don't have mumps and I'm fi...

Have you ever heard the term civil society? Are you a member of an organization that was started by citizens to help make the world a bette...

He was a French teacher and she has the happiest laugh and the sweetest daughters.  They are from Mozambique and spent 10 years in a refu...

We give our children roots and wings. We want them to leave us, to learn, to grow, to serve. And yet, as they progress to the next momentous...

So, an article I wrote was published in the Huffington Post-UK for a column they are doing celebrating "MUMBODS".  My aunt read ...

Have you heard the saying- "Don't exercise because you HATE your body, exercise because you LOVE it." I love that. Acting beca...

I'm still marching through my thoughts these days.   This was a Facebook post I wrote last week: I have been very vocal lately in my sup...