When Life is Not Fine, and Finding Beauty Difficult.
"How are you doing?" she asked. "I'm fine," I replied.But, I wasn't fine, and afterward, I realized I was simply giving a standard answer. After all, as Shauna Niequist said, "I've been...
Learning to Live a Perfectly Imperfect Life.
The first house we owned was a 1950's three-bedroom, one-bath, nine hundred square foot home that needed some love. And we loved that home for almost ten years. During the time we...
When Did Enough Stop Being Enough?
My musings these days have been swirling around a question of enough and my pursuit of its answer. When did enough stop being enough? It seems as if there is never enough...
Summer Planning, an Invitation to Remember How to Play.
While we have only now fully emerged into spring, I am already finding myself preparing for summer activities and making decisions about our schedules for fall. I’m not sure how we got...
How Positive Changes Can Easily Take Hold in Negative ways.
The cultural pendulum swings hard in one direction and then quickly reverses, changing everyone's course. One minute we are to chase our dreams believing we can do anything, and the next, we...
Spring Cleaning – Creating Space for Something Beautiful to Grow.
The previous owner of the home we now live in was a master gardener. The backyard was beautifully landscaped, including a butterfly garden and a plot for a vegetable garden. I was...
