When Kathy left for Paris to meet up with Crissy and fam, I packed a bag and moved in with my dad for six days. A year ago I probably would have gone into that week bracing for disaster. Instead I got something more complicated than that. I got time with my dad. Right before…

I received this little graphic about the evolution of the blog: 2021–2023 Molly: “How do I survive this?”2024 Molly: “Why is this happening?”2025 Molly: “How much more can one person carry?”2026 Molly: “How do I build a life inside all of this?” Yeah. That’s it. I didn’t plan any of that — I just kept…

Boy. I really rambled on yesterday. I am keeping this short. It’s Friday and I am so ready for the weekend. Another crazy storm came through last night. Tornado sirens going off at 8:30pm. I had to wake Matt up out of a dead sleep and drag Fiona out from under the bed so we…

Let’s start with the good news. Frank is doing well. Really well. Thank you, sweet baby Jesus. We are done with the emergency vets and specialists for now and back to just seeing Dr. Palmer, who is an absolute sweetheart. The diagnosis is in — PLE, Protein-Losing Enteropathy, with inflammatory bowel disease. The name is…

I honestly can only remember two things about Mother’s Day weekend. Saturday I went into the city to hang out with Grace. It was a beautiful warm and sunny day. We had lunch at this place called Little Bad Wolf which was delicious, then walked around, explored, and shopped. It was a really great day.…

I was not expecting the response I got. You all made me blush and feel uncomfortable. Thank you. Kevin, my brother-in-law, a partner and chief creative director at probably one of the number one ad agencies in the world, read the blog and texted me to say it’s fantastic and that I’m a good writer.…

I’ve been having a conversation with myself lately. It started because I’ve been thinking about going public with this blog. Really public. Not just quietly existing out there on the internet hoping nobody finds it, but actually putting it out there intentionally. Sharing it. Letting people in. And I keep stopping myself. Here’s the thing…

It’s been one of those weeks and it’s only Tuesday. Sunday evening my dad fell while out walking George. Couldn’t get himself up. Kathy tracked him down after he’d been gone too long and called me to come help. By the time I got there, the fire marshal who lives in their neighborhood had already…

Thursday morning started chaotic before it even got going. I made it back to Pilates which, progress but left without my water bottle, forgot to put my Apple Watch on, and was generally running on fumes but I made it through . On the drive home I checked my phone at a stoplight and saw…

I just realized I haven’t written anything here since January. That feels wrong. But also accurate. It’s not that nothing was happening. It’s that everything was happening — and I didn’t have the space or energy or honestly the desire to sit down and put words to it. Life didn’t pause. I just stopped narrating…