Jan 12, 2025 | writing & work
J A N U A R Y Slow Extended Easily considered Long books and popping fires and steaming cups of tea. Quilts and crafts and cooking. Soups and stews that spend the day in simmer then invite you, at your leisure, to casually spoon-fill right into that perfect...
Dec 21, 2024 | Moments of Grace
AS I WRITE this post, I am under a quilt on our bed in our guest room, a tumbler of hot coffee beside me. It’s 6:50 am, on Saturday, December 21, and I’ve been awake since, oh, 4:45 or so, a hundred thousand thoughts tumbling around in my head they way...
Oct 16, 2024 | nature & awe
IT’S DIFFICULT TO WRITE about the destruction of Hurricane Helene and at the same time, it’s impossible not to. So many people—so many of you, quite frankly—reached out with concern and love and prayers, knowing how deeply we love our sweet getaway in...
Jun 25, 2024 | ideas & inspiration
IT’S ALL possibility, that blank spread before you, the pages waiting, willing, wondering what the future holds. So many options. So much freedom! It’s a journal, after all, a private space meant for play and experimentation, the stakes so low as to...
Jun 18, 2024 | nature & awe
WE WERE SITTING on the big back deck, looking at the mountains, the early June day having reached that magic time of diminishing heat and lingering softness. There was so much to see. The rhododendron was bursting forth in vivid color, and the wild azaleas seemed to...
