Well, we’ve finally arrived at the big day: it’s Antigua Eve! Tomorrow morning at 7 a.m., assuming all goes according to schedule (which, as we all know, is a huge and hopeful assumption when…

I can’t believe Mike and I are less than one week away from our trip to Antigua! I’ve had to restrain myself from starting the packing process already, reminding myself that a.) I don’t…

Note: I didn’t finish reading this book–according to my Kindle, I got through 47%. This review will be focused on the portion I did read and the reasons why I stopped. Now that semester…

When we sent our son off to college last fall, one of the big transitions Mike and I faced was learning to think of ourselves as “empty nesters.” We’d always made our family (and,…

I knew from the start that Mike was one of the good guys. How, you ask? It might have something to do with the fact that he immediately tried to be helpful to me–he…

Here we are at the end of April already–the end of the year’s first trimester, as it were–and I find myself needing another check-in with the blogging goals I set for myself back in…

This semester, I’ve been teaching a class that focuses on the American Dream. I start the semester by asking students what they think that dream consists of, specifically. They’re always surprised to discover that…