Jan 26, 2012 | ideas & inspiration
Have you ever read a book that changed your life? This one changed mine. And I don’t mean in an esoteric, it-made-me-feel-good-for-a-little-while kind of way. I mean it changed the way I function on a daily basis. Author Gretchen Rubin starts The Happiness...
Jan 20, 2012 | ideas & inspiration
When I saw this posted on my friend Julie Turner’s Facebook page, I knew I had to share. I’m so glad she said yes.
Jan 19, 2012 | ideas & inspiration
Has the sky always been this remarkable? It is one of the great joys of my days, this winter, to simply look up. I can hardly make my way to work in the morning, or home in the evening, for obsessing over the constantly changing sky. To the North? Fourteen shades of...
Jan 17, 2012 | ideas & inspiration
It’s not so surprising, actually, the fact that I’ve decided to have a Word for the Year. It’s just the kind of thing that appeals to me—a focus for my life, a magnetic field, a centering force when I start to drift (and inevitably I will) toward...
Jan 11, 2012 | ideas & inspiration
Our Sunday School study of the book of Esther has proceeded slowly, a pace for which I am grateful. It has given me time to think through each nuance of the Persian Queen’s remarkable story, diving into the verses and living them in way I simply could not have...
