You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world.  –Matthew 5:14, The Message  olive | You’ve lost so many teeth the last...

Dearest children, We are now several weeks into our school year and have been reading oodles of fables together lately, samples from the more familiar Aesop’s...

Although I have spent much time during the last 18 months discovering ways to simplify, de-clutter, and organize our daily living and home, I admit...

Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground. ― Christina Rossetti olive | your heart is full of laughter, especially when your father is swinging from...

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. ― Wendell Berry, Given olive | every evening you come outside with me, to...

When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow. ― Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet olive | I actually...

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient. ― Marilynne Robinson olive | your laugh is deep and rich, the sort that stems from...

“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.” ― Pablo Neruda olive | The Monarch butterfly on our front porch emerged from its chrysalis this...

olive | You seem to be shifting daily, looking less and less little each day. You’ve been sleeping later this week, some days until mid-morning,...

I like to think of editing less as a fix-it shop and more as the place where photos come to life, where the story or...