We just returned from a very long weekend with the girls in Chicago, visiting my mother and her husband. It was a lot of fun, schedules and routines were tossed into the wind, and the American Girl store will now be haunting me in my dreams for weeks to come. My sweet Pea? She was [...]

Cleaning out my closet. I always do this around the changing of the seasons. Cheap tee-shirts may come and go, but good shoes? A worthy investment. These stand the test of time, I’m telling you. By a bunch of cheap pairs and toss them every couple seasons, or invest in any pair of these, wear [...]

I rushed Lola to the animal emergency room a couple of nights ago, not sure what was wrong with her, but just certain that something was amiss. It was in her eyes. Just that look, not much different than the one your kid gives you when she has a high fever. Turns out she had [...]

These last few weeks have been hell. I’ve had a chronic cough that’s kept me up at night, made my sides ache, my throat bleed and my psyche weep for relief. My doctor said I had asthma, made worse by allergies. She wrote prescriptions for two inhalers and gave me an in-office breathing treatment. By [...]