Mark and I always knew thirteen would be a monumental year for our children. We want it to be. The teen years are such a...

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...

Olive turned six on Wednesday, and I still can hardly believe it. To celebrate in a small and simple way, we invited a few of...

We pierced your ears last weekend, a gift and milestone for your eighth year. You sat straight and still, without so much as a flinch,...

Last Friday morning, the day we planned to celebrate Blythe’s birthday, I sat with her, flipping through cookbooks and online images while she chose the...

As you turn a year older, Liam, and slip into what, in reality, is the last half of your time at home with us, we...

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...

Your father was traveling through Cuba when I discovered I was pregnant with you. For days, I let this strange, new idea roll through my mind and out onto...

A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and...