Dear Elli, I just finished helping you with your math homework.  Helping you with math homework is hellish.  God help me.  I need a...

Dear Elli, We are now six months into this global pandemic shitshow we've got going on right now.  Today was one of my foul tempered...

Dear Elli, Yesterday was my best friend's baby shower.  Michelle and I have been friends since third grade.  Third grade was 30 years...

Dear Elli, It dawned upon me fully today that I have become slightly unhinged.  Now before you get all concerned and have me committed or...

Dear Elli, I'm pretty good at stuff most of the time.  When I find something I want to do, I work my ass off until I figure it out. ...

Dear Elli, I was looking through my Facebook memories tonight, and realized that today it has been exactly one year since a friend from...

Dear Elli, Today you turned eleven.  Holy cow, right!?!  That means I've been writing these crazy letters for eight years! For the first...

Dear Elli, Teachers have this saying, and it goes a little something like this: "There's no such thing as a stupid question." I've heard...

Dear Elli, Let me tell you about today.  You're not going to believe this shit.  But I'm serious.  This is totally a true story. I was...

Dear Elli, I am not a domestic goddess.  You know that.  Pretty much everyone knows that.  I was simply not cut out for domestic activity...

Dear Elli, Unpopular opinions are difficult things to have sometimes.  I know.  I have several of them.  It's especially uncomfortable to...

Dear Elli, This is one for the record books!  The Coronavirus is in town for the foreseeable near future, and we are living through a...

Dear Elli, Politics are weird.  Election years are super weird.  This particular election year is the weirdest shit I've ever seen in my...

Dear Elli, We went to the orthodontist today.  Several years ago, he fixed your cross bite and you finally got your retainer removed...

Dear Elli, I vehemently dislike Valentine's Day.  I'm totally serious. I know what you're gonna say.  How could anyone with a soul say...

Dear Elli, We just finished a nearly two hour conversation about important life stuff. You've developed this fixation recently on...

Dear Elli, The other day, you told me that I'm "not fit to live in a suburban neighborhood" because I'm "not festive" during holidays....

Dear Elli, I ran a 10K today.  That's 6.2 miles.  It's really not a big deal for most athletes.  The bad ass boys and girls are out there...

Dear Elli, We just got home yesterday from a brief four day tour of New England.  It was you, me, and my mother. Now normally our girl's...

Dear Elli, I was supposed to go to this industry networking thing today.  It's this thing where you go around a course and shoot clay...