finding beauty in the everyday


  • Here We Are. November 9th.

    What a morning.  What a night.  What a time to be alive.  I went to bed with a lump in my throat and a pit in my stomach, shocked that I could be so out of touch with half of the country in which I live and that I love.  “Where are the adults?” I…

  • Love Trumps Fear. Always.

      Election Day 2016  

  • The Cubs. And Faith.

    Last night the Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series and, as the daughter of a dad who grew up on the south side of Chicago and had a Cubs Shrine for most of my childhood, I cried.  I cried for my grandfather who, though a Cardinals fan, took his family to Wrigley Field on…

  • Go With It.