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Wonder: A Book Review
“Thank you God for good books to read,” London prayed in our before bed family routine. And the good book she was talking about on this particular evening was the book called Wonder. Actually, the specific book was a sequel – or companion book really – to Wonder called Auggie & Me. We started with Wonder –…
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Five Finds Friday (Harry Potter kitties & biscuits & tween fashion)
I like that the weather has finally turned cooler. I don’t like that it’s dark by 6 pm. I like that my teenagers are fun and interesting humans. I don’t like that we are closer to graduation age than we are to starting kindergarten age. I like that the weekend is upon us. I don’t like that my to…
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life. in the right now.
This is life right now. The house I currently live in puts on a pretty show – right? I mean – just look at her. From a distance. There’s so much good about it – the allusion of rural only minutes from our town. Wonderful neighbors. High ceilings. Wide door frames so I can swap furniture with…
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A Great Big List of Games
It’s underneath the tree every Christmas. A new game. Sometimes we open it on Christmas Eve to play, sometimes it gets played Christmas afternoon and sometimes it waits a couple of days to make the rounds. But it’s long been a tradition – the new game for Christmas. If your family likes to search out a new game for…
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alone. married. single. not single.
It’s such a pervasive lie that it almost always sounds and feels like the truth. It is promoted by society and culture, movies, songs, novels and well-meaning friends. This lie that the culture keeps feeding us, keeps shoveling down our throats through our screens and our movies and our words, is that to be fulfilled, to be a success, to…
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five finds friday (dutch babies and bad Halloween candy, beanies and avert brothers)
It’s November already, for the love. funny Last week at Target I saw this. It’s a joke – right? fashionable Alright. I’ve got two. One. I love my Bogs boots. They’re about three years old. They’ve been looking rough and I was wondering what I could do to bring back their glory.…
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the questions. the answers.
Things change and get strange With this movement of time. It’s happening right now to you. (Avett Brothers, Down With the Shine) Each month, each week, each day, each hour – it’s the same and it’s different. Time goes and it slips and it sloshes and it wraps me up in tangles and it finds me sitting at the…
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five finds friday – mostly a photo collection
It’s been a good week. And a regular week. A slow week and a fast week. Things have been fine and things have been pleasant and things have been weird. Right on track, I’d say. I’m mostly going to use photos today. Because I’ve both written and spoken a lot of words already this week. fashionable…
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you pick the story from our day: a beautiful & terrible world.
Which story should I tell you about my day? The one where the kids and I sat on a gigantic rock outcropping behind poet Carl Sandburg’s house in Flat Rock, NC and read his poems to one another while the mountains and the trees listened in? Or the one where my kids acted so ridiculous…
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Why What We Think About Our Sheriff’s Adultery Actually Matters
It’s been hard to ignore. The news in our county here. The local news. Allegations about our county’s sheriff. Accusations of sexual harassment and abuse. I’m not saying I know the entire truth. Only two people probably can say that. The first articles and news stories written months ago were only about the accusations, the claims made by a…
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Five Finds Friday (cozy pants & days you would live over again)
It started with such good intentions – this week. Looking at the calendar I planned for a week of stay stay stay. Life heard about that plan and laughed and instead I wound up with a week of go go go. It’s alright but I feel as if I’m crawling across the finish line, except – the finish line…
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An Ode to Autumn
A simple part of our Nature Study for the past several years has been to simply pick a spot outside (each of us in a different location) each week and for just a short time to sit still and observe. While you are observing you may lie still with your eyes closed or you may draw what you see…
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needy people
The day my friends and I visited Charleston we found street parking near the ice cream shop we wanted to visit. The meter required actual coins and the four of us were digging around in our bags, searching for quarters and coming up mostly empty handed. A lady was standing nearby as we hopped out of the car, wallets…
