April 2, 2026We spend a lot of time talking about gifting for the hard seasons. The get well soon. The thinking of…
March 28, 2026Before I meet Baby Girl, I keep thinking about the family she is entering. She is entering a family that…
March 23, 2026There's a woman in your life who has already been through something. You know who she is. You don't always…
March 21, 2026Pregnancy gives you an astonishing number of things to think about. Medical training gives those thoughts footnotes. I am writing…
March 19, 2026I am not a natural gift giver. I say this as a man who loves his family deeply and has…
March 16, 2026I want to tell you something that might sound like a mother being a mother. It is that. I'm not…
March 9, 2026I used to over-explain everything. Not just the big things — the diagnosis, the timeline, the detour. Everything. The small…
March 7, 2026Families often recognize change before the people changing know how to name it. Our dad has been noticing something about…
March 5, 2026It happened in a grocery store. I was wearing a shirt — one of the early basically fine designs, nothing…
March 2, 2026I was a planner. Past tense intentional — not because I've stopped planning entirely, but because the version of me…
