There are a thousand thousand reasons to love this life, everyone one of them sufficient. ― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead drawing and listening to an old Sheryl Crow...

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is...

  Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. ― A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh _____________________________ spring herbs + tales...

Weekends are always the best time for personal reading. On Saturdays, I tend to stay in my PJs longer and often meander back into my bed with...

“Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be?” ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See __________________________...

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell others. ― Mary Oliver, Sometimes ________________________________ reading lessons on the kitchen floor lettuce snipped from the...

For as long as I can remember, Mark and I have used the term simple in relation to some aspect of our life and personal aesthetic. For...

Last year, I read Tamar Adler’s An Everlasting Meal for the first time. Subtitled Cooking with Grace and Economy, it was those final words that allured...

I’ve said it before, but I love how this season full of early darkness and cold winds brings a slower rhythm to our home. Like...

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...