Daily Thoughts
Their Deeply Treasured Beauty
There are days when I don’t start these posts until it is much later than I planned or anticipated. Life, as the saying goes, sometimes gets in between us and our plans. Even so, despite my 17 year old suggesting it would be okay to skip a day, I settle myself in...
Fierce & Fearless Despite Anxiety
It’s Birthday Eve Day for the 14 year old and of course that means I am considering all the ways life has changed over the years for us and for the 14 year old. The ways our youngest has navigated through the years, shedding her childhood and morphing into a teenager....
That Quiet Time of Day
There is a time as a parent when you become acutely aware of the quiet, but instead of it inspiring you to relax, it spurs you to investigate as if you are Sherlock Holmes himself. You know what I’m talking about, especially if you have been the parent of young...
The Kismet of Our Creative Lives
(this post contains affiliate links) A few years ago I discovered a book by Elizabeth Gilbert called, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear and devoured its words and ideas zestfully. Because it inspired me as much as it did, I also got the audio version, read by...
Fridays That Feed Our Hyperfixations
Who doesn’t love Friday's arrival? Unlike the rest of the week, Friday brings with it an anticipation the other days of the week cannot necessarily equal. Because my husband is a music director at a local church and works on Sundays, Friday and Saturday officially are...
There’s Nothing Ordinary about Love
Today is 6 months to the day that we woke up to the devastation of Hurricane Helene—no power, trees down, no cell phone service, and no idea how bad things actually were beyond our small neighborhood. Those were some unpredictable days during unprecedented times....
Our Yin Yang Teen Harmony
One of my favorite things each day is getting to catch glimpses of the many ways my teen girls interact and connect with one another. It is wonderfully varied and always encouraging and it fills my heart to overflowing with joy. In many ways they are a lot alike, but...
Messy Days Bring Out Empathy & Team Work
Some days are pretty much like feeling your way through a dark room during a power outage—you know the lay of the land but in the dark sometimes you walk into a piece of furniture nonetheless. Still, if you’re astute enough to track the weather and know there’s a...
Oh the Irony of Flexibility & Life
Oh the irony of life. Here’s what I’m talking about—as I have gotten older I have become less flexible, mainly, of course, in my body, my joints popping more and my ability to sit on the floor for any length of time pretty much gone with the lower numbers of my age....