In December 2024, I wrote a blog for Indianapolis Moms on how Christmas and New Year are celebrated in my home country of Ireland....
I recently went to visit my 93-year-old grandmother for a morning catch-up. Few places take me back to childhood like her home. The summers...
The sun has not yet risen in Chicago, but I wake up at the first sounds of life on the wooden floor above my...
Every year, when the holidays roll around, I feel that familiar tug in my chest, telling me it is time to slow down and...
“Excuse me,” an older gentleman said to my husband as we exited a restaurant. “You really have great daughters there. I was watching you...
“What did Santa bring you?” was the question I heard right after Christmas break ended in my first-grade classroom. I sat in my chair,...
Let’s pump the brakes real quick and recognize that I’m not talking about going to the school board and telling them to lock up...
One night this past October, I was doing my usual routine of saying goodnight to all my kids. My oldest, my ten-year-old son, was...
How we talk about others matters. As our lives have become more digital and more of our communication is done through sharing messages, sending...
There is a lot going on right now, isn’t there? I don’t have to list it all. You know. You probably feel it deep...
I wrote a few months back about the moment I cracked, the raw conversation with my husband where I said out loud that I...
As we moms know all too well, life is busy, and there never seems to be enough time for everything we need and want...
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, for all the coziness, homeyness, and gratitude it inspires and provides. But I’ve recently noticed a small thread of...
It's going to be ok. That's what I tell the beast that lives in me called anxiety. It doesn't work, but at least I...

























