THE BEST OF IT by Kay Ryan However carved up or pared down we get, we keep on making the best of it as though...

As some of you have already noticed, my hair is like Rapunzel’s right now, only darker and without the magic, life-giving powers of course. I...

  {this moment}: A Friday ritual. A single photo capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to...

Toss it up to my naiveté or young idealism that this never dawned on me before having children, but let me just say, parenting is HARD....

This one is for the lot of you who so patiently keep returning here to our poor, neglected blog. Yes, you, who regularly request by...

Yesterday morning Kristen came over with all the ingredients to make your special spaghetti sauce. Who knew that yesterday, the day we chopped and talked...

I recently read an article about the specific knowledge of first graders. It proceeded to give examples of 6 and 7 year-old kids recalling vast amounts...

In spite of the recent, occasional desires to wanderlust off the edge of the earth, I’m still here — at times in my pjs until...

olive kay douglass march 4, 2009 10:52 am 6 lbs  2 0z       18 1/2 in Last summer we found out that you, Olive, would be...

Every year when I pull out the Christmas decor, I plan to actually put something in the doors of our advent calendar. The kids always...