My baby starts school tomorrow. All day long she has packed and repacked her backpack, practiced drawing letters on lined paper, made pic...

Yesterday was my 33rd birthday.   It felt appropriate today to post this,  something I have written off and on the past year,  while...

a year ago he left said this is never going to work firstly denial begging for it to work I'll do anything to keep this marria...

It was Sunday.  It was raining. We woke up from a long afternoon nap.  All three of us.  (That's what we are now.  Three of us.) I...

I broke up with my boyfriend this week. Was he my boyfriend? I don't know.  He called himself my boyfriend.  He was my take me to d...

How do you process a divorce, a family disrupted, years of struggle that finally culminate in an abrupt ending?  How do you accept that you...

I thought I lost this blog. The domain name expired.  I didn't move fast enough.  And when I did move it was overwhelming and confusi...

The first time I felt it was in July.  I was on vacation with my family in Southern California- my mom and her (really great) new husband a...

Sundays are the hardest days for me. I feel it from deep inside.  A desire to hide.  To crawl into bed and never get out.  To cry and cry...

It happened today at Hobby Lobby. Everything was innocent.  So regular Tuesday morning, so easy,  so not "Oh my gosh I'm getting...

Sometimes I wonder. How will I look back on this time in my life? When I'm 64 what will I think of 32 year old me? 32 year old Bo...

Today was the first day of school at Jordan High. And for the first time in my life I am not going back to school. Not as a student in ...

Yesterday I had to wake Hugh up from his nap. I don't really let him ever sleep past 5 pm.  Then he never goes down for the night.  B...

I'm reading a difficult book.  It's written by a Russian.  Is that what makes it so difficult? The names are hard to keep track o...

My mom is getting remarried. When I lost my dad, I lost him all at once.  It was so sudden.  I went to school and he was there.  I got a ...

I posted so little on this blog in 2017.  Instagram (@thelifeofbon) mostly serves as my mini blog now, but I do miss writing.  I am hoping...

Well friends we have emerged from a pile of jump rings and gold chain and studs upon studs upon studs. We survived the Christmas jewelry ...

Because matching Christmas jammies. I hope you are all enjoying your holiday season.

About two years ago, June's Uncle Brett won her a stuffed animal at an arcade center.  That stuffed animal was Froggie.  Froggi...