“You’re really hard on yourself,” she said to me from her office chair. “I know. My husband tells me the same thing,” I say. We talk about it a little further. I carry some sort of ritualistic gotta prove my worth thing that no one else on earth has asked me to carry. We don’t speak those words, but I … Read More
Back to School
We’ve had my 6 and 8 year old nieces with us for nearly a week now. Before Grammy left, she and I took the girls back to school shopping. Growing up, going shopping for new school supplies was one of my favorite times of the year. There’s just something about a fresh box of crayons, never been used pencils, a … Read More