I’m thrilled (and honored and any other exciting adjective) to announce my invitation to collaborate on this beautiful project, Spilled Milk.  “Spilled Milk is a...

You need something to open up a new door To show you something you seen before But overlooked a hundred times or more You need...

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for...

Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our father’s love — difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul’s miseries, her burdens, her needs...

It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. ― Rainer Maria Rilke Spring has arrived here, wrapping us with...

In these almost seven years of living in our home, I have learned to trace the light within it through seasons and hours. I plan...

Many of us who aren’t farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing...

I know. I know. We’re into the first week of 2013 and I’m still talking about  Christmas. Here’s the thing: Christmas isn’t a day or...

There’s an estimated 7,000 children who work in the Ghana fishing industry. Some of these children are as young as 5 and 6 years old....

I imagined this summer differently a few months ago. Mark had a full summer of classes planned and our family budget had dramatically shrunk this...