Some people prefer large soirees with friends and food and gifts to celebrate monumental birthdays, and we have hosted a couple of those fun events over the...

Deciding what is essential to pack for each family trip can feel like simplifying a complex math equation, one that includes a limited travel budget,...

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...

Take me someplace where we can be silent together. ― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things We left for New Mexico before the sun, my one...

Last weekend our family traveled several hours west to spend a few days with friends near the Frio River.  I always love visiting that place....

In so many sweet ways, motherhood has been a journey in simple living for me, one I’ve always craved and not always known quite how...

When I first began writing in this space in 2007, I was influenced by and quoted Thoreau’s Walden. Like so many before me, I treasured...

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. — Henry James Last weekend we traveled...

This weekend we camped next to a 450 foot pink granite rock with birds to wake us and the stars to tuck us in. On Saturday,...

The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of...