Sep 24, 2014 | ideas & inspiration
As I write this, I’m sitting at Reagan National waiting to board a flight home. People are rushing, televisions are blaring, airlines are screaming announcements–noise is layered on noise in a way that makes my heart race and my blood pressure rise. Why On...
Aug 27, 2014 | ideas & inspiration
Last winter, we created the most wonderful studio for me just down the back stairs of our house. It’s an area that was previously a covered porch (and a place that really didn’t get much use). So we closed in the brick arches with windows, added a french...
Aug 19, 2014 | ideas & inspiration
We live our lives in seasons, moving gently from one to the next, so quiet it’s hardly worth a notice most days. And then something happens that catapults you into awareness—a job change, the death of a parent, your child going to college—and the...
Aug 6, 2014 | ideas & inspiration
It was completely unexpected since we’d spent nearly two weeks together on the tail-end of her study abroad in Spain. And yet when we got home, Eliza presented a beautiful gift bag stuffed with bright tissue paper. It’s for you Mom, from me. To thank you...
Jul 4, 2014 | ideas & inspiration
a little roundup of things that inspired me this week 1. Words and Pictures Photos tell stories, and no one captures them more eloquently than my friend, Julie Williams Dixon. She’s a writer, filmmaker and photographer who sees the unseen then somehow...
Jul 3, 2014 | ideas & inspiration
It was a simple little sentence in the midst of a gorgeous homily, one most certainly penned in thoughtful regard for the bride and groom. It was a holy moment after all—the beautiful young couple before us on the alter, her positively radiant in joy, he so taken he...
