Kate decided to give softball a try this summer after being inspired by watching our Cambridge High School girls softball team (conference champs!) and discovering one of her favorite grown ups (Jamie Downing) was the youth coach. She started the season with literally zero experience (she’d never even touched a softball before), joining a team

Today would have been my loving nephew Rylee’s 23rd birthday but tragically his path on this earth ended when he died in a car accident this past May. Below is the eulogy I gave at his funeral services. I thought I’d share it here, both to honor him on this day, and also for his loved ones – including

At the end of 2019, G and I had one of those chats about our family’s finances, goals, and budgets for 2020. (You know – the sexy stuff.) Thanks primarily to my husband who’s pretty focused on these sorts of things (and never goes to Target), we were achieving one of our big financial goals and

…that time a reporter called me to chat, and I assumed she was writing for a small local paper, but it actually turned out to be The New York Times. It was such a thrill to see mine and Kate’s mother/daughter “barn quilt hunting” road trips mentioned in The New York Times! I was contacted by