Unless you’ve had a loved one deployed overseas, I don’t think you have any idea what to expect. Two weeks into the process, I still don’t have even the slightest idea of how it all works. Even information as seemly simple as where do I mail BoBo’s letters has yet to be revealed. My only [...]

Every Spring, Mr and Mrs Love[bird] come to my front porch for a visit. They move in above the front door, gathering up twigs and other random fluff to create a nice little nesting place for their young. However, a nest built directly above any home’s front door is not probably not the best-placed location [...]

When boys approach manhood, there are things which are better discussed or taught by another person of the male persuasion. Although YaYa was in no rush to remove the thin mustache which he has grown, there was something kind of cool about having BoBo show him how to shave.

We laugh about it now…sort of. But at 5:45 am, seeing the news that I had yet to break gently to the immediate family posted on the walls of Facebook was no laughing matter. Furthermore, fielding the calls as my aunts and uncles discover this coffee spewing news during their morning review of their “home [...]