Do the Write Thing

Because of my husband’s church-related job—he serves as the Director of Traditional Music at a local church near where we live—he gets Fridays and Saturdays off as his weekend, and because of this, I have come to love Thursday afternoons as the lead-in to our weekend....

The Examined Life

In the seven days since I told myself I was going to shift this project to fewer entries, I have discovered that the process of showing up here each day truly was about something I need to do. I learned it’s not only writing about the things I love about my teenagers...

They Take My Breath Away

A couple of years ago as Christmas approached, I was trying to figure out gifts for the girls’ grandparents, especially my parents who are long distance in Florida at this point. It struck me that something personal, something created by the girls would be a perfect...