Last Saturday, my oldest daughter and I embarked on a cross-country road trip to Nashville.  She is officially moving down south to go to school with the added benefit of living with her sister.  Lots of feels around another daughter leaving the state and being over a thousand miles away, but I’ll save that for…

Over the holiday break, I started reading E2 by Pam Grout. I am late to the party because Lowi has already read it — probably the day it was released or something. I heard about it from her but then it was referenced in another book I was reading recently and so I did what…

Sometimes when writing a daily blog we struggle because we feel like our subject matter needs to be worthy of actually writing.  You might be saying to yourself, “duh.”  The reality is though when you put yourself out there to write 5 days/week you don’t always have something worth saying.  Having two of us certainly…

  You know that little saying about life not having to be perfect to be wonderful?  It’s one of those things we all know logically, but secretly we really just want things to be a little closer to perfect than the other end of the spectrum.   We all have days that we just move…

When life gets busy, and hectic, and difficult and often all at the same time we can get serious. We become rigid about life. We become insulated. Our edges get rougher and sharper. It’s our own protective mechanism. Porcupines get prickly and, frankly, so do we. It’s why we melt down at the grocery this…

Sunshine & Sarcasm, Lowi & G