3 Things: Podcasts
I like to listen while I'm doing laundry. I've been tuning into truth while folding and hanging for years and years now. It turns chores into a time of teaching…
A Tree as a Reminder
So there's this unruly tree in our backyard. It's positioned close to the house, just past the deck, hanging right over the roof, making all kinds of mischief. It drops…
The Learning Quandary
A homeschooling home with publicly schooled children living in it sounds... weird. Laughable. Impossible? Maybe weird and laughable... but not at all impossible. After getting a degree in Human Development…
Writing, Home, and New Things
Ah, the piano and strings are playing here again! And my writing flame is flickering! And I'm sitting happy in front of a window, candle lit, sun shining, flowers potted,…
Gladness
I feel like mothers live in this thick divide between pure, unadulterated bliss on one side, and absolute helplessness on the other. Motherhood is a mix like that. One minute…
Labor
Twelve years ago today I labored long and wondered what I'd done to myself. Walking into the hospital with freckles and pig tails and an over due boy baby I…
The Remembering
A few weeks back, standing in the kitchen after an unravel, the youngest walked up from behind me without my knowing it. Sensing my overwhelm, in his best kindergarten lisp…
Menial
He had Green Curry, and my guy had Drunken Noodles, and I had Spicy Basil Chicken as we sat at my long white dining table last weekend. We talked over…
A Day
I'm surrounded by bookshelves, and my phone's streaming Mumford and Sons, and the sun is shining, and I've been lost in my own head and heart for the last few…
Slow
It's Monday, and I'm a mom who just moved, and I've had mountains to settle, and I feel compelled today to live the unhurried life. I've written on this before,…