Dear Travis, One day when you were brand new in the world, I sat holding your sweet, tiny self and realized that some day you would be a middle school boy. I burst into tears. Your papa came home and found me crying, as I lamented that you would have to go through middle school […]
The other day I was scrolling Facebook and came across a neat little infographic that a friend had posted. It had an interesting statistic on it that I hadn’t seen anywhere else. It was a repost, and the person who originally posted it did not cite her source. I did a little searching, and couldn’t […]
I had a blog post all ready to go up last week, and I couldn’t post it. There’s too much going on for regularly scheduled programming. In the last few weeks, racial injustice has been highlighted in a major way. It’s a centuries old problem, and recent events have brought it to the forefront of […]
A few nights ago I woke up around 2 in the morning and could not fall back to sleep. I felt restless and unsettled and my thoughts were racing. Around 4:30 I decided to just get up for the day. I went downstairs and was getting myself a cup of coffee, and my tired 4:30 […]
My son has declared that he is having “a Nerf gun moment.” He is not new to Nerf guns, but his enthusiasm these days is at an all time high. He just earned money to order a new one, and he counted down the hours until it arrived on our doorstep. He made new targets […]