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My Awesome Neighbors Are Saving Our Summer

As I sip my beverage and watch my girls play with neighbor friends from my lawn chair, I think to myself, “What a wonderful corona world.” One…

Each spring, for years, my husband would throw grass seed in our backyard. As soon as the soft green spikes would begin to rise from the ground to…

I’m at the car pick-up line at my daughter’s elementary school. Except now it’s the pick-up line where my daughter’s teachers are handing…

Today, the kids woke up excited and ready for their last day of school. They ate breakfast and headed up the stairs to get dressed.…

We spent spring break in quarantine, and our summer getaway is heading toward mask-clad lockdown. A family vacation is about to take on a whole new…

Let’s indulge, this summer, sweet friends. Time has slowed down. Life’s pace has given us a genuine chance to remember. Remember what…

This summer is going to look different. We don’t know if there will be mornings at the splash pad or afternoons at the playground. We don’t…

When I was a kid in the ’80s, we lived a very different life. We often left home on our bikes and didn’t return until the street lights came…

Summer is on the horizon, my friends, and I have one thing to say about that: HALLELUJAH! With all the craziness going on in the world, I…

Somewhere out there is a teacher enjoying her last bits of summer. She’s probably wishing the days were longer—that there was more time left for…