Our family is traveling for Thanksgiving this year, something we haven’t done in several years. Sometimes a change of habit is in order. Still, I...

Although I do much to protect my skin in the summertime, I always seem prone to dry spots and dullness as the weather cools off...

“In the Kitchen” is a series celebrating the family table––the food we eat, the spaces we inhabit, and the people with whom we share it all. Each...

There’s something about baked foods straight from the oven that warms both the soul and the belly. However divided a room or community or nation...

“In the Kitchen” is a series celebrating the family table––the food we eat, the spaces we inhabit, and the people with whom we share it all. Each...

Rolling beeswax candles is perhaps one of my children’s favorite activities for the home, a task that needs tending more often in the autumn and winter...

Once upon a moon, I shared simple basics from my closet here. It was a way I celebrated what I already owned and some of...

Few things make my heart swell more with gratitude than when people I love gather around our table, especially when it is glowing with beeswax...

I have always appreciated the simplicity of Thanksgiving, how much and how little it requires of me all at once. On one hand it is...

My children have actually made their own Halloween costumes every year. Although this sounds noble and intentional, it actually began more for economic reasons. I...