Tag: life
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The Queen is Dead
Dolly Parton has died. I feel a little like the person crying out “The Queen is Dead! Long live the Queen!” But we don’t have a new Queen yet. I saw this post today — taken from Threads after being posted from Bluesky. (which is the most 2026 thing ever.) Imagine. You are talented, beautiful,…
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4 Tips to Help Survive Sending Your Child to College
We dropped Child The First off to begin his second year of college on Thursday. I, of course, was immediately brought back to last year, crying as we drove away from dorm. That first year, I was a swirling storm of emotions. Simultaneously thrilled he was starting a new phase of his life and mourning…
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Walking Down the Path
As I mentioned last month, we’re all living that fairy tale life. As authors, we’re writing about life, but in encapsulated vignettes that feature our struggles and dark times before we grow and find resolution. We’re basically writing fairy tales. We’re writing about our time in one section of forest before we come back out…
Mindy Carlson 