Mary Severns
What Waco Still Really Needs
What Waco Still Really Needs
Waco is finally moving up in the world! When we were thinking of moving here almost four years ago, anyone I asked with connections to the city or Baylor didn't...
What My Twenty-Year-Old Self Would See in Me | Being Forty “ish”
What My Twenty-Year-Old Self Would See in Me | Being Forty "ish"
As a quick recap: I'm a 43 old mother of two teenagers (15 year old boy, 13 year old girl) who's been married...
Heat, Haboob, and Hissing – a Tale of Vacation Mayhem
Heat, Haboob, and Hissing - a Tale of Vacation Mayhem
Have you seen that insurance commercial where the narrator is "Mayhem" and shows all the catastrophes awaiting you and your life? Well, my personality type...
5 Summer Read Recommendations
It's Summertime!!! We are free to do anything we want....wait, anything our kids want, right? Our schedules might have a little less lunch packing and school-clothes washing, but we are still at the mercy...
Melanoma: A Personal Story – Skin Safety in the Summer
Tan is beautiful, right? That was the cultural push when I was growing up. I spent my childhood in Arizona, soaking up the rays by the pool, spraying lemon juice in my hair. I...
Marriage & Love Languages: Why They Matter
After twenty-three years of marriage, I can honestly say that there is still more to learn and grown in within our marriage! We were just babies (twenty) when we said "I do," and have...
Whatcha Reading?
"Whatcha readin'?" Remember a time when you'd go into a doctor's office or on a bus or airplane and that's what you'd use as a conversation starter? Because that's what you would see -...
Cultivate Calm in the Chaos
What's stressing you out today?
Were you late to morning drop-off AGAIN? Did the dog chew up your kid's favorite (& expensive) shoe? Did you forget to start dinner early enough, and now it's...
Go To School
It's the witching hour of summer.
You know, it's those final two weeks before school goes back, and the kids are doing the craziest, most annoying things possible. Now is when all the summer...