I moved to Central Virginia in August of 2015 for my freshman year of college. We took two cars—my 2002 Honda Civic named Florence and my...

My therapist and I talk a lot about values, and there's a very important reason for this. It's not because I don't understand what they...

For the first five and a half years of our marriage, my husband worked rotating shifts, including six weeks of night shift every six...

C appuccino in hand, Suzanna stomped down the sidewalk, dreading the day ahead. She’d woken in a funk after suffering through bizarre...

To put it mildly, it has been an emotional week in the United States. Former President Donald J. Trump won the presidential election...

It has rained almost every day for the past two weeks.  The pasture across the street from my house has been shrouded in a thick layer of...

When I got a new refrigerator, I vowed it would not become a pinboard for coupons, appointment reminders, invitations, and cards. But...

Mental health is at an all-time low, and I’m always looking for ways to keep myself healthy and happy. Self-care is the act of...

One of the biggest questions I get when I tell people I'm a work-from-home writer is, “What is working from home like for you?” While...

My childhood home was a big, yellow farmhouse with a picket fence. I slept in a blush-pink room with a dormer that overlooked the front...

I often ask God to reveal himself to me in obvious ways. Maybe I’m weak of faith, or maybe I’m just an experiential learner, but I don’t...

The basketball pounds like a drum outside my office window. It’s 3:30 p.m., and the neighbor kids are home from school, playing a game of...

My husband and I purchased a mid-century fixer-upper a little over two years ago, and one of the biggest mysteries we’ve yet to solve is...

We thought we were lost. We’d been driving for two hours already, and the maps app told me to turn down a dirt road that looked like a...