Dear Evan, When you were younger you were full of spunk, of sass, and above all confidence. You didn’t just think you could, but you KNEW you could drive a car, start school earlier, and cook us dinner if we would only let you try. You still have just as much spunk and sass but lately I’ve noticed your confidence
Read morehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FldTYIuog8&feature=em-upload_owner Evan, you came to me the other day and asked if I wanted to hear “the song that makes grown ups cry.” So far I haven’t seen any of them cry as a result, only choke on their food, struggle to maintain composure, and lose at keeping a straight face. I love you with all my heart but I’m
Read moreI have NO idea who to attribute this picture to. It was all over the internet and I can’t find an original source. This librarian apologizes. Dear Evan and Lulu, Last night your dad was on national television wearing a gigantic cheese grater on his head. Multiple times. As silly as this might sound he had dreamed about this moment
Read moreCreative Commons License: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/204073798/ Dear Teachers, I spent some time in your hallways today. I sat in small chairs that adorned art-clad walls and I gazed up with anticipation each time someone approached the doorway. I noticed how you smiled as soon as you saw us through the door frame. How that one simple gesture eased so many apprehensions I
Read more“How’s that baby doing?”, you always used to ask me . First when we sat across the table from each other week after week in meetings. Not even my growing stomach could hide my insecurities as I sat in a room full of hundreds of years of collective experience. Twenty-three years old and the only thing I had correctly figured
Read moreDear Evan and Lulu, There are so many things you are good at. Too many things to even list them all. Lulu could walk into a packed gymnasium and perform an impromptu one-child show that would keep people entertained for hours. Evan could sell them all their tickets, create a seating chart for them and sort them into a pattern
Read morePhoto used with Creative Commons license from user http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbowen/ Dear Evan and Lulu, I was 16 years old the first time I made a deal with the devil. I was standing in my parents’ bathroom and the devil was lying on the floor motionless and calling out to me. It was peach colored and looked as if it had once
Read morePhoto courtesy of Creative Commons License from user http://www.flickr.com/photos/sincerelyhiten/ I attended a memoir writing workshop this last weekend with Nicole LeFavour. I have no real plans to start working on a memoir right now because I’m 31 and have a pretty uninteresting life, but I jumped at the opportunity to learn, to meet people, to write. She did a great job
Read moreI’ve had some amazing Twitter moments lately. Moments where authors I admire and who I spend hours pedaling products for actually talk to me. TO ME! It is such a crazy feeling when technology bridges the gaps that feels insurmountable. Here are a few of the moments: Nikki McClure is one of my all time favorite illustrators and artists. My house
Read moreDear Evan and Lulu, One year from tomorrow I will stand in this spot and take vows that have been in the works since two years ago when Mike and I first met. We will marry three years from the anniversary that we started. You aren’t quite old enough to know what a year is yet. The only way to
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Chop Wood, Carry Water 