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…
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…
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…
Borrowed, returned
This has been a good house– a really, really good house. Even though it was never ours, even though our hearts always knew it was…
It’s always something
From 2009 to 2014, I waited. I waited to get to Nepal, because then, things would settle down for a bit. In Nepal, I said,…