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Dropping the second kid off at college is whole different experience than the first time around. It’s not just knowing that there aren’t really 857 dorm “essentials” that I have to have, it’s the fact...

Things I’ve learned this summer: • There will always be some form of poultry living in a part of my house where I didn’t expect poultry to be. The first round of ducklings was planned for; the second...

E’s got big plans. She’s completely redoing the bathroom that she and G have shared since we moved back to the farm, “as soon as G moves out.” She is planning to take over his bedroom and turn it int...

I have been a swimmer my entire life. However, I have always had a fear that there are sharks lurking in the drains of every pool I’m in, and swimming in open water was not something I enjoyed doing. ...

Anthony Bourdain said, “travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” I was lucky enough to be able to support the travel opportunity that E and G had this summer, and it was with a si...

My kids are using their time to travel this summer, and they’re not taking me with them. All of them have reached the ages where they can travel with friends, or even by themselves. We did a big famil...

Originally, I had planned to fight middle age all the way. I tried to do all the things that I thought would keep me young. I kept up with the music. I mean, not all of it, but I know my way around Ba...

The other night, G and I were working in the flower garden when we heard a commotion coming from the duck pen. Fearing the worst, G sprinted down to them, and I followed as quickly as I could. As so...

After 18 years, I got a rare Mom win when for the first time ever: G left the house with a book under his arm. Just a few days after graduating from high school he voluntarily read something that wasn...