Some people dread the holidays, because it means forced family fun or having to spend time with people they are related to, but feel very little in relation to.
Growing up I didn’t give much thought to the uniqueness of my family. As a teenager I sometimes found certain aspects of family life frustrating or annoying (my ex-step-mother in particular was and still is a nut), but I never felt real shame or embarrassment. I was lucky.

Melissa G. Moore is the daughter of “Happy Face” serial killer, Keith Hunter Jesperson. Between 1990-1995, Jesperson murdered 8 women. He’s currently in the Oregon …read more

I went Wordy Wednesday for my Food/Nutrition post and I think I’m going to do the same here. Wordy Wednesday is the wordy bloggers answer to Wordless Wednesday.
Today, I’ve got my daughter, Sarah, eating a cupcake at my sister-in-law’s 30th birthday this past weekend.  She’s got pink sparkles on her face and her hair is wet from the pool.  She obviously had a blast.

Sarah is 11 and she is going into the 6th grade in about a month. She’s my youngest - she’s quite a bit younger than her next oldest sibling, Bay, who is turning 17 in a couple of weeks.
The …read more

Dream Riders is an multi-award-winning documentary about Bill and Nico Roulston, a father and son who take a 4000 mile bicycle trip across the United States together. The purpose of the trip is to reconnect father and son.
Bill has only a few options left to regain his son’s love and respect after a devastating divorce creates a growing emotional divide between father and son. Nico’s 18th birthday marks his transition from boy and man, and Bill fears that if he doesn’t act now, he could lose his son forever.
The documentary chronicles Bill’s solution: for father and son to cycle together …read more

I was watching the show The Bachelorette the other day with my sister, Robin. She was at her home and I was at mine, almost 6 hours apart. I’m a pretty slow texter, but it was still fun to watch the show “together” this way.
We were texting, because my sister was having trouble talking. She was attacked by a neighbor’s dog last weekend and has a large bite below her lip. It hurts when she talks.  My sister recently completed her student teaching and after years of working in a totally unrelated field, she is all set to be a …read more