You know you're under a book deadline when... Your husband's putting spray-can whipped cream in his coffee because we ran out of creamer four days ago.

Danger doesn’t find my kids. They seem to seek it out...

I have a love/hate relationship with fall. It's beautiful yet stressful. New Englanders, like squirrels storing nuts, know we have a limited time to finish projects before we’re blasted with piles of snow.

Someone thought a great gift would be a remote-control tarantula for my boys.

Cue the bad boy music, swagger walk, and pyrotechnics. I may not be Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in Terminator...

There’s an underlying fear we can miss our potential. But is that possible?

My husband had left his wallet at home. Usually, it wouldn’t have been a big deal, but we were standing in the airport

Laughing actually hurts. Contracting of the core muscles causes us pain, but our body compensates by sending out endorphins to mask the ache.

Bickering among friends can be deadly. It might not be a lion-gnaws-on-your-bones type of deadly, but it inevitably kills the friendship.

If we're not on our guard, we'll eventually coast to a stop and that's when the trap is set.

I was petrified of a bully on my bus. She looked tough, acted tough, and sounded tough. She dressed in all black and always sat in the back of the bus.

Nothing can be more horrifying then carrying your tray across a crowded school lunchroom when you don’t know anyone.

We may go back to safe ground, or take a step back to gain perspective. But we are not supposed to stay there.

God favors the excitable. He blesses those who step out in faith. He desires us to be all-in.

Don't exhaust yourself worrying over what the world is becoming. Let tomorrow worry about itself.

Every try to assemble a trampoline? Some things we're not meant to understand. By midafternoon springs rocketed into the air nearly missing us...

Why is the word No so easy for toddlers to say yet adults stumble over it?

We may not have taken a bullet, but many of us have open gashes festering like President Garfield. We wrestle with the negative thoughts and doubts that corrode our well-being and steal our joy.

Would you rather move fifteen years into the future and receive 50 million dollars or ...

We’ve seen the sculpture of a man bent under the weight up a massive round sphere. Why are we holdng up our own weight of the world?