Most of us have probably found ourselves late-night scrolling on social media, sometimes as a subconscious way to zone out the problems of the day or avoid worries brewing under the surface. We use it to turn our brains “off,” or to escape for a moment in-between responsibilities. Goodness, I have even done it while […]

The other afternoon, my daughter and I took some time to sit on our front porch and share a snack. It was around the time neighbors were pouring back into the neighborhood from being gone all day at work or school. We saw the usual cars and returned waves to some familiar faces, but then […]

I told my husband that I was pregnant during his lunch break one February Tuesday. We were smack in the middle of an ice storm that had resulted in a large portion of the DFW metroplex being without electricity, and the temps were resting in single digits for days on end. As one of the […]