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Wishing you a hope and light-filled Christmas …

It’s almost midnight on New Year’s Eve.  The ball is beginning its descent in Times Square.  People are counting down, “10. . . 9. . . 8. . . “ and even as you feel the inevitable pull toward the future, your eyes tear up a little.  Another year is over.   “3. . . 2. . . 1!”  Amidst all …

I don’t know about your house, but here at mine, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.  The boys are loving having all the empty boxes around to fight over, hide in, and, inevitably, tear apart.  (I include Monty this time when I say “the boys”).  As always happens, it feels like we just finished off the Thanksgiving leftovers, …

I have a lifelong fascination with the royals—which has been reignited as I’ve watched the coverage of Prince Harry and his fiancée over the past few weeks.  I love the royals’ clothes, their customs, their manners and manors, and of course, their dramas.  I always loved Princess Diana the most.  I had a paper doll of her in every famous …

Monty had to take me to the ER this morning.  I’ve been struggling so much with asthma lately, spending my nights and days coughing and wheezing, taking my rescue inhaler multiple times an hour, and using my nebulizer over and over again.  By this morning, none of my rescue methods were working, and I was really fighting to breathe.  So …

I work for our family business as a duper.  I love it, and not just because it’s a fun job title to have.  Being a duper means I take blank USB drives and put our software on them, which is a process called duplicating, or duping.  In order to dupe, I have to find the right master for the drives …

I picked up a book today that I found in a bathroom drawer, of all places.  I looked at its cover and thought, Why didn’t I finish this?  The beginning was so good.  I flipped it open to the place where my bookmark was, and I had written some notes on the page and underlined some sentences.  Next to them, …

I have a confession to make that’s going to make me sound like a terrible person.  I’m going to share it anyway at the risk of sounding judgmental, self-righteous, and downright stupid.  Here’s my confession: I have been all of those things.  I have judged people.  I have considered myself to be better than other people.  And I have made …

One of my favorite parts of living in this little town is having my parents and my brother, Adam, so close to me.  My parents live around the corner from us in one direction, and Adam and his family live around the corner in the other direction.  After many years apart because of distance—geographic on his part, deliberate stupid choice …

Last night, I saw an image on Facebook that said something about Christmas being around the corner, then said to comment regarding how you felt about the holidays.  I don’t know why, but I started scrolling through the comments.  One after another said that they were dreading the holidays—they felt lonely, sad, even hopeless when Christmas came every year and …