Daily Thoughts
Abuzz with Connections
I remember when I was a young girl and I used to exchange handwritten letters with a couple of different people in my life, one a great aunt and other a penpal I’d been connected to through a school project. I would spend a good amount of time crafting my letters,...
What Do You Know?
the winding path of learning (photo by silviarita on Pixabay) As a parent, I want to admit that I love being surprised by my teenagers, whether I am surprised by a gift they give me, a drawing they choose to share with me, or when I realize they know way more about...
A Daily Dose of Chocolate
It is my professional opinion that everyone experiences important health benefits when consuming dark chocolate. Those benefits apply to both physical and mental health, from improving blood flow and helping with lowering blood pressure, providing some important...
Making the Mundane Extraordinary
There are times when I identify way more with Walter Mitty than I care to admit. Specifically, I am talking about the 2013 film version starring Ben Stiller for the way the movie removes the hen-pecked spouse angle and imbues James Thurber’s original short story with...
Bad Hair Days Made Better
Confession: sometimes I would rather do anything than take a shower and wash my hair. I would more readily do laundry or clean the bathroom or have to do all of my Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve Day than expend the energy necessary to wash my hair (the showering...
They Have My Heart, No Matter What
In honor of Valentine’s Day, a day of which I am not a huge fan, I thought it might be fun to consider the ways these two amazing teenagers of ours have my heart—no matter what. Perhaps the greatest influence for this blogging series is God’s love for me. Christians...
Parenting Is for the Birds!
Every now and then I stumble onto an unschooling idea that resonates in ways I maybe could or even should have predicted and yet didn’t anticipate. What I love most about those ideas and moments is the way they often build on and play off of each other. One such...
Creating a Space for Their Art
As a creative person, I find other people’s creativity a wonderful well of inspiration from which to draw. I love to hear from other people regarding their creative journeys—their struggles, their celebrations, their newest artistic pursuits. That’s why I count myself...
It’s the Little Things
Every now and again I am reminded just how much I enjoy the little things of my life, things like quiet moments in the morning with coffee and prayer or watching the birds flit to and fro at our backyard feeders or simply having a conversation with one of my...