I texted my best friend yesterday: “If you have ever wanted to completely exhaust five small kids and one golden retriever at the end of…
The distressed perspective
The whole time we lived in North Carolina, I wanted to paint the huge cabinet that anchored our family room. When the piece was unloaded…
From homeschooling to online teaching
I went to college to become a mechanical engineer. I left college a newspaper journalist.
Taking wing
I think Jack was six when he announced that he wanted to fly. Not just fly, exactly; my boy knew from that very moment that…
Wading
What is it with us moms? We’re so often so focused on finding the great recipes to feed our people, picking the perfect read-aloud, or…
We bought a farm
Sigh. We’re not farmers, and trying to learn how to farm during our mid-40s, well, it’s trying.
Settling
It’s been a week and two days, and we’re slowly settling in. Our furniture is finding its place, the drawers are starting to make sense,…
Do it again
A quote I heard this week that spoke deeply to me: “Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore…
Good
It hasn’t been perfect. I’ll say that outright, at the start, lest anyone read my words and think otherwise. These past few days have been…
Talking about what matters
In these pivotal moments our of our nation’s conversation about race and violence and privilege and assumptions, I want to say the right things to…