It’s been tough being grateful the last couple days. I’ll be honest. The hostilities of the election (now over) were almost too palpable. The behavior of the citizenry was shameful, on both sides. But in my heart, though I quietly retreated, I was thankful. So thankful for the bright yellow…
My grandparents had an addition to their home built many years before I was born — or at least before I could remember. It was a fantastic place. Kept separate from the rest of the house by sliding doors, it was a place I could retreat to and disappear. I…
If I were to flip the pages of my memory of this past year, glancing at the glossy pages of what has happened, I would marvel at the life that has been recorded. My life has been a sort of tornado in a calm valley and yet, time has sort…
Our streetlights have dimmed a little tonight as we learned about a death in our family. My husband’s great-uncle passed away this morning and we all feel the heaviness that comes with mourning. It’s such a heavy blanket to pull over ourselves, an unwelcome one, and yet we do because…
We’re on vacation right now. Specifically, my family is on vacation and I am supervising my family’s vacation. As a wife and mother I feel as if I am rarely on “vacation” — I am still a mother to my children, I still make our meals, I still organize the…
I love the section in The Little Prince when the narrator, a man we only know as The Pilot, speaks matter of factly about how humans think they are of great importance. He says that we like to think we are so important and we take up a great deal…
