When humans first starting chucking golf balls around for fun, golf balls looked quite different than they do today. They were shiny and...

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” - Theodore Roosevelt About 10 years ago I met a girl that I’ll call Sarah. Sarah was a pretty, sweet,...

Jerry Maguire stood disheveled and slightly desperate in his estranged wife, Dorothy’s living room. He crestfallenly set down his...

I don’t know if Brett Kavanaugh attacked Christine Blasey Ford in the summer of 1982 – but I know this: The culture in which this...

“Who does she think she is, anyway?” you hear a friend saying.  “She’s not so special.  Her marriage is failing/her career is in...

I’ve gotten more compliments over weight loss than anything else I’ve ever done in my life. Never mind the times in my life that I’ve...

When I was a little girl I wanted to change the world.  I wanted to make the world a better place.  I dreamed of getting a job for Make a...

When we think of gratitude we often gravitate toward giving thanks to the people and things that have made our lives better – usually the...

“I LOVE basketball,” The Professor grandly announced from the confines of his car seat. “I want to basketball again, Mommy!  Not just at...

It has been exactly six months since I have had a sip of alcohol.  I started drinking in college to be cool and to be happy.  I cut...

“Go Ahead – Buy it! You Deserve it!” When is a splurge worth it? And when is a splurge just an unnecessary extravagance? I’m writing this...

My most desperate moment of thankgiving didn’t happen in November. It was a winter evening in 2003, maybe February or March, with the...

Seeing my firstborn son smile for the first time was one of moments in my life I will never forget. It filled me with indescribable awe...

I am an ordinary girl. I grew up in a typical suburban house with two brothers, a mom and a dad, a dog or two and a few hamsters. I went...

I have always wanted to be a good girl.  It started before I can remember, and it’s still going on today, as I edge ever closer to 40. ...