What My Daughter Taught Me About Letting Go
I watched my daughter shed the last remnants of her childhood as she folded well-loved toys into a cardboard box…
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I watched my daughter shed the last remnants of her childhood as she folded well-loved toys into a cardboard box…
Continue ReadingTwo years ago this very night, I sat in this very chair in front of this very window, surrounded by…
Continue ReadingWhen my husband brought up the idea of moving back to my hometown nearly eight years ago, I didn’t want…
Continue ReadingI, like most people, am a creature of habit. I love the things in life that make me comfortable. I…
Continue ReadingSometimes you get lucky with those easygoing friendships. I have that with my friend Amelia. For the past 12 years, we’ve…
Continue ReadingWe recently sold the house we lived in for five years. We always knew it was an “in-between” house for…
Continue ReadingWe recently moved—probably no surprise in this crazy market. We weren’t looking to move, but our dream house (the one…
Continue ReadingAs I stood in the middle of a bustling English high street, trying to help my screaming 7-year-old daughter fit…
Continue ReadingThis past year, we made the decision to move our family 1,800 miles to a new place where we knew…
Continue ReadingThis holiday season has been a little more exciting, stressful, chaotic, sleepless, and wonderful than any I can remember aside…
Continue ReadingIn the fall of 2021, my husband and I started exploring the idea of moving out of the Midwest. We…
Continue ReadingTwo tiny keys sat on the kitchen counter of an otherwise empty house. To anyone else in the world, they…
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