“The summer is almost over!" (Exclaimed with a bit of tension and surprise.) Have you been hearing that lately? Me too. And every time I hear it, a tiny panic button goes off in my heart. Wait. Did I miss it? Am I behind on summer? Which is a ridiculous sentence, really. But it can still feel true, right? Because suddenly there's this pressure to fill every waking moment with something summery. Get to the lake. Have the picnic. Float down the river. Attend the outdoor concert. Soak it all in before fall comes marching in with Continue Reading
The Really Bad Day
It wasn’t pretty. Not at all. In fact, it was just plain ugly. What was ugly, you ask? Tuesday. Tuesday was ugly. Call it a bad day. A meltdown day. A day when nothing seemed to go right. Or as one of my storybook heroes, Alexander, referred to it, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” * The sad thing is, I’m not even sure what was wrong. It just seemed like everything was. (Cue “Poor Me” music here.) Nothing was wrong but everything was wrong. Nothing was right. I wasn’t right. The world wasn’t Continue Reading