The Ghosts of Christmas Way Past, Somewhat Past, and Now 2020

There's a format we follow in twelve steps meetings that is based on sharing your story with your drug of choice and it's a pretty basic yet effective story telling tool that goes like this: - What it was like - What happened - What it's like now I thought I could use this format …

For all this I am thankful – but mostly for pie

For donuts at the library for the third time this week, where there's always a yoga class or story time or just one more book we need to get before we can leave. For another Thanksgiving sober, instead of one like years ago where I fell off the train drunk as my parents arrived to pick …

Tips for Gardening with Little Kids

We have a little yard (that my husband takes immaculate care of) and area for gardening (we all have our own special talents and gardening is not one of mine), so we've given our awesome Nanny Nikki (who does have a talent and love of gardening) and the kids free reign of all that grows …