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By Jenna Deckert My daughter loves to sing. Most days she wakes up singing. She sings and dances her way through the hours of her days. At 5 years old, her life is one big musical. It is one of my favorite things about her. She sings herself to sleep at night, listening to a…

Have you ever been driving down a curvy highway, wind in your hair, senses exhilarated and then simply say to your backseat passenger, “Take the wheel for a while.  I don't want responsibility for what happens next.”  You take your hands off the wheel, close your eyes and just allow whatever happens to happen.  That…

Grasp Mar 2, 2016 Every once in awhile I like to imagine I'm in control of things. It's a nice fantasy to indulge and it strokes my sometimes-fragile ego. But while there is something nice about that thought, I can tell you with certainty that there was extreme freedom on the day that I realized…

The line Feb 9, 2016 Like a good neighbor There are days when I like my neighbor's dog, but I cannot remember having a day when I wanted that dog to defecate on my lawn. I'm not one of those guys who strives to have the perfect grass, and extra fertilizer often helps, but it…