Does Learning to Love Flawed People Mean Forgiving Them Too? [The Lesson of the Granny Panties!]

Granny panties, size XL, beige, used. They’d arrived in a plain brown envelope accompanied by a single tea towel dated to the ’70′s by the brown mushrooms that covered it. This was hardly what a girl dreams of getting for her all-important 12th birthday and yet there it was. But the worst part wasn’t the suspicious stains …

5 Reasons Why Life Isn’t Fair [You try explaining the Syrian crisis to a first grader. No, seriously, please try. I need help.]

Admit it, you’re going to sing this song this way from now on. It’s so much better. A scream: It’s not fair! A surrender, a sigh: It’s not fair. A realization: It’s not fair… A cry: It. is. not. fair! A complaint: It’s not faaaaiiiir. An apology: It’s not fair. A prayer; a whisper or a wail: …

What Christine Needed [5 Lessons I Learned From My Terminally Ill Sister]

 TRUTH Signed, a mom of four lego-loving cleaning-averse kids People are so astonished when I tell them I have a 17-year-old sister that, I’ll admit it, I kind of like shocking them with that info. (Really I have so very few things I can use to shock people that if I have to rely on …

Learning Life Lessons The Hard Way: A “To-Do” List is Nothing Without a “To-Be” List [Plus: we bought a house!]

So we bought a house! And I LOVE IT!! (Pics to come!) After an excruciating day of looking at dozens of progressively crappier houses (true story: one house said it “needed a little TLC” but when we got there the ceiling was caved in and there was a massive crack in the foundation… it didn’t …