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50 Stories::The Sunday Funk

This is my favorite blog post. Not because it’s especially ‘good’ (although it is heartfelt and honest), but because it

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50 Stories::From an Empty-Nest to an Abundant Life

If I could sum up the past several years in one post, this post from September 2016 is it. It’s

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50 Stories::Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

I am a fixer. I am a problem solver. And I can tell you that learning to take a step

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50 Stories::I Tried

Craft therapy. That’s what I’ve come to call these kinds of projects. Getting messy, working with my hands, making something…it’s

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50 Stories::Just the Two of Us

In the six years since I wrote this post, Tripp and I have endured our fair share of challenges. And

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50 Stories::Making the Grade in Motherhood

Motherhood is not for sissies…that was the sentiment I was sharing in this post from May 2013. Five years ago,

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