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You're my Favorite Today is a place where you'll find stories, ideas, and thoughts about navigating the empty nest phase of life and keeping it full of fun, adventure, and — most importantly —possibility!
You'll also find stories about the journey it took to get here, plus a lot of other essays and favorite things that have defined my life for the past eight years ... and continue to do so.
So if your nest is empty — or even if your little chicks are teetering on the edge about to take flight — grab a drink and join me.
Sure, life may be changing, but isn't it pretty great that we are, too?
Craving Order in the Disorder
I love order. If you looked in the storage area of our basement you might have a hard time believing it, but I do. Order, predictability, planning … I strive for structure in all areas of my life, and have since I was little. I’ve always said it didn’t take a therapist to tell me…
A Rule Follower’s Rant
I’ve been a rule follower my entire life, and ironically it’s a character trait that hasn’t done me any favors. Sure, it’s kept me out of the principal’s office, jail, and rehab, and I’ve never worried about a scary phone call from my landlord, or the IRS, but weirdly, playing by the rules hasn’t always…
Friday Favorites (except for the murder)
Great photo, right? What a majestic, beautiful, amazing creature, right? WRONG.Okay, okay, right, but I’m adding another, less pleasing adjective to his list: MURDERER. Last week we watched this majestic, beautiful, amazing creature murder in cold blood one of our lake’s darling, happy baby loons. What about the other bably loon, you ask? Oh, you…
The Favorites (for now)
I know I know.You’re confused, right? You’re like, wait a minute, MICHELLE, what’s with the lame title? Is this just yet another regular YMFT Friday Favorites post with an unoriginal and highly uninteresting title because you still don’t know what to rename the Friday Favorites because even though you still post them on Fridays (when…
What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To (June)
Hello friends!How’s everyone doing today? You good? You great?You blah?You feeling mad, sad, grateful, guilty, glum, happy, weary, stressed, inspired, tired, and hopeful all at once? via GIPHY I thought I’d focus the Friday Favorites’ post (or let’s be real, a day that might not even be Friday) on some of the books, shows, podcasts…
Bigger Than My Words
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been struggling with my thoughts, my actions, and my words. As someone who typically makes sense of the clusterfuck of thoughts scrambling in her head through writing — or at least attempts to — I’ve felt more than a little bit lost. The horrific event that happened so…
Friday Favorites: A Change of Quaranscenery
It’s that time of year, ya’ll.For those of you who’ve been following along for awhile you know how excited I get each May. Is it because my soul somehow survived yet another Minnesota winter and has surprisingly thawed out? Obviously. But more than anything, it’s because for the past 10 years May means it’s time…
Running Back Into The Fire
A couple of years ago I knew a family whose house caught fire. The father bravely got the mom and two of his triplets out of the inferno to the safety of their front lawn (the other triplet had broken curfew and was still at a party, thank goodness). Then he heard barking from inside…