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Can I Just Have One Ordinary Week? On Chronic Illness, Marriage, and Survival Mode
Some seasons don’t bring one crisis. They bring five at once. Marriage, work, children, health, and healing all seem to demand attention at the same time. Sometimes the bravest thing you can say isn’t profound at all. Sometimes it’s simply… “Bahhhhh.”
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The Women Were Drinking Me Under the Table: A Girls Weekend in Northern Michigan
I was younger, quieter, and completely out of my element. But among women with mimosas, euchre crimes, homemade sauce, and sober boulder confidence, I remembered that womanhood does not have one volume setting.
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The Mother’s Day Chocolate Incident: Chaos, Cheesecake, and Family Meltdowns
By noon on Mother’s Day, the dog had explosive diarrhea, one daughter was still drunk from the night before, and my granddaughter announced she was full after eating bread and cheesecake. Modern motherhood is beautiful.
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Hot Mess or Just Life? Real Stories of Family Chaos in Midlife
Grand Rapids came in pieces: migraine brain, wrong tickets, crutches, poolside confessions, wedding text chaos during Lion King intermission, and one more reminder that life never stays solemn for long.
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Can Migraine Cause Memory Issues? What I’ve Lived and What the Research Says
For two and a half years, I wondered whether migraine could really take this much from a person. This is what it feels like when your body scares you, but your life is still full of love, humor, and people worth showing up for.
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Chapter 1: Fort Knox Thick
Fort Knox Thick opens at my kitchen table with sourdough, linen, cold coffee, and too many tabs open—the surface of a woman who looks like she has it together. Underneath is a lifetime of walls built through survival, usefulness, and self-protection. This is the beginning of asking what those walls saved, what they cost, and…