Nut House Mama

Lately I have been really thinking about the “hard things” – the often difficult, challenging, uncomfortable and inconvenient...

Guess what? Chicken butt! This was our yearly ornament this year - my grandson's favorite thing to say to us this year was, "Guess...

Transitions. This year - the last six months in particular – has been full of major transitions. The most in a single year for as long as...

The other day was a rough ass day. I cried all day. Little bits here and there at first but then I got in the shower – a twenty-minute...

Several months ago, my dear friend and coworker (aka: work wife), Crystal, and I often lamented the lengthy lists of weird supplements...

As long as there is love, there will be grief. The grief of time passing, of life moving on half-finished, of empty spaces that were once...

Being back at home after getting my mama settled into memory care, I am finally able to start getting to my own "stuff." I am so grateful...

Several years ago, this idea came to me while I was doing a bible study with some dear friends. I wrote it all out and gave it to each of...

It is 3:30am on Christmas Eve in 2020 and I am wide awake. My brain is in overdrive – probably from lack of homework. It is freaking out...

Two weeks ago, our family experienced a trauma. The details of who, what, when and why are not nearly as important as our family’s...

(I want to preface this particular journal/blog entry with a disclaimer: This is about MY journey. This is NOT a slam on any particular...

UPDATE (May 13, 2020): I posted about our glass hearts in one of the groups that I joined during quarantine #aworldofhearts (it's been...

For the last few years, I have made it a point to spend some time on/around my birthday praying, meditating and thinking about what goals...