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Goodness, life just went right past us in the month of December. I had all of these lofty ideas to write a blog a week around the theme...

16 years ago, Scott proposed to me on the dock at our favorite family summer vacation spot, Bass Lake, California. It was a place I went...

I came home three days ago rejuvenated, sun kissed, and salt water cleansed from this very rough past academic year. Vacations are...

As we checked the boxes, completed our health questionnaires, got our QR codes, made sure we had registered with the state of Hawaii,...

So, as I am writing my blog post, I am anxiously waiting for the timer to go off so I can take out my gooseberry tart from the oven. Two...

Cell phone ringers, alarms for zoom meetings, notifications on social media, video game updates, safeguarding websites for children’s...

The stove is a staple in the Iler home. Everytime we visit Scott’s mom, there are two things always sitting on the vintage stove- a...

Do you remember your first day of school? Your first day of college? Or even your first “real job?” First impressions are hard and let’s...

I stumbled across a book last night that was gifted to me over a year ago. It was titled "Three Moments of Joy” A Guided Journal for...

In life, there are small risks and there are life changing risks. Each one builds upon another. When you are a child, there is a risk of...

Spring has sprung. How many times have you heard that phrase? When I think of those words, I think of flowers in bloom, fresh rain on the...

We recently asked our daughters what the meaning of synchronous is. They confidently responded “Synchronous is time on Zoom and...

Friday afternoon, Scott and I finally had the opportunity to have a date. We drove to Cal State Los Angeles and sat in a very well...