Pass the Sanity, Please!

When I was a kid, the adults in my life were very, very concerned about my future safety. Elementary school and middle school were basically a never-ending preparation course for a world filled with lurking strangers in trench coats, aggressive drug dealers with hurt feelings, and spontaneous fires breaking out at every turn. I was ready . I had Stranger Danger  drilled into my soul. D.A.R.E.  taught me that at any social gathering, someone would inevitably shove drugs in my

For an entire week, my weather app promised destruction. Not just snow— Snowmageddon . We’re talking 17–21 inches  of the fluffy white stuff, topped with nearly an inch of ice for good measure. A real end-times forecast. Now, as someone with New Jersey roots, this sounded less like a crisis and more like a cozy winter wonderland. But I live in Virginia  now, and Virginia hears “snow” and responds by politely shutting down civilization for an undetermined amount of time. So na

Life is full. And by full , I mean bursting at the seams, overflowing, one minor inconvenience away from complete chaos. Four kids. After-school sports. Dance classes. Weekly physical therapy appointments for my five-year-old. A full-time job. A husband whose work hours laugh in the face of anything resembling a schedule. A house that somehow always needs one more thing  done. So naturally, I looked at my life and thought: You know what we have plenty of time for? An eight-we