Maybe it was the way last week’s muddled grey clouds hovered like dust over my soul or the unexpected chill that forced us back into...

Seeing that we had several pounds of strawberries to use and preserve, the girls and I decided to make strawberry pancakes for breakfast last weekend....

Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed. ― Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems Last week the days grew so warm that on one...

  JACKET (similar here, here, or here) DAY: dress | boots | earrings | sunglasses | bag NIGHT: blouse | jeans | earrings (similar here or here)...

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...

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness....

. . . Sometimes I dream that everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly, and I...

Trying to save some money, we decided to stay home this Easter. So instead of eating tons of delicious food, celebrating the Resurrection with our...

{this moment}: A Friday ritual. A single photo (or group of photos) capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment...

  I’m slowing down to take it all in....