January 15, 2021

Every December, I look forward to revisiting everything that made the news during the previous twelve months. My process is largely the same in writing each respective ‘...

January 15, 2021

I have some really great gift-givers in my life; those that seem to find the perfect present no matter the circumstance. But a friend of mine got me something this year ...

January 8, 2021

2020 certainly asked a lot of us. Wow, there’s the understatement of the New Year, right? Maybe that’s not quite the right wording. 2020 more or less snatched a lot ...

January 8, 2021

It was New Year’s Eve 2019 and of the top resolutions being made that night, less screen time sat just behind getting finances in order and living a healthier life. Enter ...

December 21, 2020

I’m seven years old. It’s Christmas morning, 1992. My brothers and I are too giddy for our own good, feeling like…well, kids on Christmas morning. We barrel down the ...

December 21, 2020

“Well, it looks like it will be him and me around the tree,” the woman said pointing to her husband with a smile. “We’ve done it before, we can do it again,” she explained ...

December 16, 2020

It was a day of post-holiday shopping several years ago that inadvertently put us on a path to what has become a surprising and greatly anticipated moment each year: the ...

December 10, 2020

My mother is probably the strongest person I’ve ever met in my 35 years on this earth, and odds are she’ll still have taken top honors by the time my chips are cashed in ...

December 4, 2020

Like a lot of other people growing up in this topsy-turvy world, I used to have dreams of being a rock star. Alas, I settled for being in a jam band with three friends ...