When my two boys were in diapers, Friday evenings could not come soon enough. I was working full time, judging myself for not being home more with the kids, and exhausted by the pe...

“Pedal pedal pedal!” my dad shouted to me as he let go of the back of my banana seat and gave me a big thrust forward. My dad taught me to ride a beautiful yellow bicycle with whit...

What if we’ve been doing resolutions wrong all these years? And since many of us don’t achieve our resolutions—often feeling defeated before we even start, what if there were anoth...

I remember the first time I pulled an all-nighter. It was over two decades ago and I was in college studying for a stats test. There were multiple libraries to choose from at The O...

Welcome to the season of candy corn and pumpkins. The weeks leading up to the new year with its new resolutions are a tough time for many—do we spontaneously splurge and regret it ...

Decades ago, with good intentions, my parents signed me up for the biggest college meal plan available. I was about to start my second year of school, and I was going to live in th...

On a brisk Colorado morning, about a week ago, my 10-year-old noticed that my husband Randy had loaded our mountain bikes on the car. 

“Are you two going on a date after you drop ...

A few years ago when the news spread that I was leaving my corporate job many people asked me, so what will you do? I’d mention excitedly that I was going back to school again, and...