Prosecco & Poppies

As parents sift through the aftermath of Halloween (parents of younger kids I see you & am jealous you’re likely browsing through their plastic pumpkin bucket right now, hand-selecting a few fave pieces of candy to savor!), I’m pondering how different ours was this year. It was the first Halloween my husband & I sat home with dinner & a movie, the entire holiday passing us by without so much as a single Trick-Or-Treater on our doorstep. In years past we kinda rocked Halloween

My latest musing, & it’s kind of a painful one, is how many times did I hurt my Mom during my teen years??

Recently I hopped online to find a small gift for Caiden’s math teacher, who is very pregnant and preparing to go on maternity leave. I...

Ladies—is it just me or are there times you find yourself having to wrangle your inner Mama Bear? That part of yourself that is fiercely...

We see & celebrate kid's 'firsts' but what about when we're witnessing a 'last'? Can we say goodbye to one chapter & happily open another?

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I haven’t written a blog in quite awhile partly because life has been inexplicably hectic for the past couple months, but also because...

As summer barrels toward us and with that, throngs of travel-starved tourists in newly-opened Italy, I've been taking a hard look at our...

I'm saying it here & now... if Stephen, Caiden & I ever start a band (Stephen on drums, Caiden on bass and/or violin, me on piano), we...

Diverging from my typical musings about Italia, I have to jot down all these thoughts that are swirling in my mind & dominating my...