The group chat was off to a hot start Saturday morning with the snow, and one friend says “hey, we’re going to make chili later. Interested?” and because we literally had nothing to do of course, all of us were all in. But because it was the kind of friends who totally get it, the invitation went like this: I’m not cleaning my house. Come over later for chili? and the responses were like “sure, but I’m not going to the store so I think I can make a salad?” and “I’ll bring blo

It’s our second COVID winter. Every day we hear of someone’s brother who had COVID (he’s fine), someone’s toddler has COVID (she’s okay - but ugh, a toddler on a nebulizer is never fun), someone’s parent who has COVID (not so hot). Add to insanely high community spread the fact that it’s been hovering around minus 14 degrees and you’ve got the perfect scenario for the season of hygge. If you saw the Delaware Children’s Theatre’s incredibly fun Frozen Jr., you know all about H

Voting rights are on the line. The pandemic rages, filling hospitals and overwhelming health systems. There is school stress and winter blues. We are sick of each other, our houses are a post-holiday disaster. Social media used to be our five minute escape but now it’s become doom scrolling. We need sunshine, we need daffodils, and we need something to unite us and not divide us. And so, God gave us Wordle. Have you Wordled? The Wordle is bringing us together. The Wordle is t

Something I’ve been thinking about lately is the concept of a Reading Challenge. I’m a reader but like, not to be stressed out. The reading is to RELIEVE the stress. Does a Reading Challenge enhance the stress? Can the stress really even *be* enhanced right now, as we enter the third year of COVID, raise children, work at our jobs, cook the dinner, find the shinguards? I am a longtime if infrequent goodreads user and I mostly use it as a long and ever-updating TBR (that’s To

The CDC recommends that we all shout “do over” and run to the sidelines and start again. And again. In our house, we’re beginning the new year with as many protections as we possibly can — 3/5 boosted, 2/5 fully vacced and waiting for the chance at a booster. Say what you want about teenage children - and I can say plenty - at least they are treated like adults in the particular category of vaccine eligibility. I wish all of us were lucky enough to have access to vaccines for