• personal

    Follow-Through

    Song Lyric of the Day: I’m just a believer / That things will get better / Some can take it or leave it / But I don’t wanna let it go American Authors / “Believer” Over the years I’ve declared my intentions and set resolutions. I started to wise up…

  • personal - photoblogging - photography

    Shiny & New

    This is my family’s New Year Baby: My new niece, Sabrina Irene, was born on December 21, 2012, just in time for Christmas and the new year. My whole family is in love with her, particularly big cousin Coraline (going in for yet another kiss in the second photo). Here’s…

  • personal

    Heavy-Hearted

    Last week I was planning on blogging about Christmas starting this week, then the Sandy Hook tragedy happened. I, like the rest of the world, am thinking of and praying for everyone in Newtown, Conn., whose lives were cut too short, those left behind, and everyone affected by this tragedy. They are…

  • being a mom - coraline - parenting - personal

    Melatonin Down Bedtime

    Song Lyric of the Day: Soft the drowsy hours are creeping / Hill and vale in slumber sleeping / I my loving vigil keeping / All through the night Harold Boulton / “All Through the Night“ The last few weeks, Coraline has experienced a drastic personality change at bedtime. She…

  • personal

    Things Can Always Be Worse

    Song Lyric of the Day: The trouble it might drag you down / If you get lost, you can always be found / Just know you’re not alone / Cause I’m going to make this place your home Phillip Phillips / “Home“ I wrote recently about how lousy October was…

  • personal - politics

    Election 2012

    Song Lyric of the Day: We forward in this generation / Triumphantly. / Won’t you help to sing / These songs of freedom? / ‘Cause all I ever have: Redemption songs / Redemption songs / Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds Bob Marley…

  • scene from a marriage

    Scene From a Marriage #28,729

    Looking up from the iPad and noticing American Horror Story: Asylum on the TV. “Thanks for that. Seeing that creepy guy with his skinned face. It’s going to give me nightmares. Ugh.” After a brief pause: “It wasn’t his skin.” Spouse* closes up iPad, gets up, and wordlessly leaves the…

  • personal - writing

    Write On

    Song Lyric of the Day: It’s time to begin, isn’t it? / I get a little bit bigger, but then I’ll admit / I’m just the same as I was / Now don’t you understand / That I’m never changing who I am Imagine Dragons / “It’s Time“ I’ve written…