The Girl Who Formerly Hated Running. Has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Very Harry Potteresque. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite have the draw that will make it the crux of a multibillion-dollar franchise. But it does make a nice article title. Yup, I’m the Girl Who Formerly Hated Running. The word run used to … Read more >>
It was January 2016. The Tagalongs were just a few days shy of their first birthday. I was driving to work and got a text from Marcella saying that our brand new nanny had just called in sick for the 3rd time in 8 days. After texting the nanny that her services were no longer … Read more >>
“So the babies won, huh?” a coworker said as she walked up to me. She’d clearly read the department-wide email I’d sent out that morning before coming into work. I was resigning from my position as production copyeditor at a curriculum design company—effective almost immediately. My editing pen was being traded in for stay-at-home … Read more >>
I’m so done with this year. I can’t wait for the clock to strike 12:00 on January 1 so I can finally say Buh-bye to 2013. Adios. Sayonara. Good riddance. This year has been a doozy of a year for me and Chris—a doozy in a string of doozies. Life got ahold of our number … Read more >>
