A few months back when the first snowstorm of 2017 hit East Tennessee, we were all home together in tiny house land, cranky started to settle in and boredom began to kick in. I remembered our rather large collection of play dough in the kitchen, so we all settled in to create our masterpieces. Each […]

  We went through a season of life where every single winter, our home would be plagued with the stomach virus. It would hit one of us and we all just knew what was up; a miserable few days and nights of quarantine for our household. Especially when they were small, it made me nervous […]

When I was growing up, my grandfather would take myself and my brother along on his many errands, buckled up in that white Crown Victoria. What should have taken an hour normally took at least three, depending on how many local residents that we ran in to that knew him. And to have known my […]

The first time I visited a laundry mat was my senior year in college. I was accustomed to taking my dirty laundry home on the weekends and utilizing my parents’ washer and dryer while wearing old sweatpants and a t-shirt, waiting on my clothes to dry. But this laundry mat intrigued me, as it was […]