My Substack

It’s funny how you get what you’re looking for in the middle of looking for something else altogether. It happens all of the time. It’s just rare that we pay attention. Let me explain. Yesterday, I had a meeting that involved a long car…

I’ve been waiting for weeks to share something with you: my new video! It’s live on my home page (tucked neatly into my header), and on YouTube. Making this video was very exciting and different for me. There was no way I was just going to do…

For the past few nights, my four-year-old has been freaking out at bedtime. “I’m thinking of that commercial again, mommy,” he’ll say. It was a creepy fright-night type commercial that ran during Jeopardy last week, advertising a Halloween event…

Yeah, I’m stealing from my pal, Thoreau, who went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately. But the dude was onto something with the idea of getting away from it all. That why I trekked out to Colorado a few weeks ago to spend a day with…

A concerned dad. A frightened 4-year-old clinging to his leg. Attack of the stuffed polar bear! I love this picture I took of my husband and kid this past weekend during our visit to the (very amazing) Indianapolis Children’s Museum. Mostly, I…