Michelle Klinger

I am an optimist. Most often a realistic optimist, but an optimist nonetheless. I’ve tried living differently from time to time, but I tend to never enjoy focusing on the…

Today felt heavy. The last few weeks have been stressful and filled with uncertainty, but today was the first time I felt weighed down. Today, the enormity of what we…

I live in a front porch neighborhood. On the kind of street where most houses have the big, covered front porches with swings or patio sets. On our street, people…

A few weeks ago, I took a weekend to paint and almost finish a bathroom remodel project in our house. A week or two before that my husband had changed…