Three

Dear Luke and Lane, We just celebrated your third birthday. An orange and pink party—as you requested—because Brother’s favorite color is orange and Sissy’s favorite color is pink. I took a moment last night to just look at each of you for some time. To gaze. To...

Reflections on My Birthday

I turned 36 on the 16th. More than anything today, I feel thankful. Not in the cute or glib way that you might use the word thankful because you don’t want to share what’s really going on. Thankful sums it up for me because it’s been a hard year—culminating in a...

Bacon Soap

We are a bit short on glamour this year. All four of our birthdays are in December—the Pirate’s is today!—and that means a level of general feverishness descends on my psyche that I try to keep from turning into total hysteria. Currently, my holiday is epitomized by...

Wild Rides

We’ve been utterly resuscitated by Steve’s parents’ nearly month-long visit. We were in need of extra hands, energy, company, familiarity. And they showed up with all of that in large and generous doses. Showing them around our lives here has been meaningful to me....