No matter how many years pass between my school days and a new September, I feel a pinch at my heart as the slow days of summer-flushed cheeks come to an end...
This summer we couldn't make our annual trip to the berry patch. Our winter freezer will be empty of smoothie-ready berries, my February pies will be bereft of…
What is interesting, what in fact a fuels narrative, feeds inspiration, and ultimately holds people and communities together, is not the things we know but rather…
The good people at NAOT sent me a new catalogue. I was preparing for a big trip and largely ignoring my own shopping needs. Would I consider blogging about…
When Erica challenged me to "put a blog where my mouth was", I agreed because I wanted to try to speak the truths I felt were missing around me. I agreed because…
Too often I find myself telling my children the "you are not so hard done by" stories. The "I never got to go out to dinner" lecture, the "do you appreciate how…
Do you struggle against the word "wife" and it's cultural weight, do you embrace it as your own, or re-define and live it in a new context?
At first I couldn't bear the media or to be part of the outcry over Jamey Rodemeyer's suicide, the latest tragedy in a seemingly growing tide of such deaths. I wondered…