“a portrait of my children once a week in 2014”  // week 11 // Last week, you all visited Nina and Papa for Spring...

Courage is found in unlikely places.  ― J.R.R. Tolkien liam // You read stories like one might drink water, consistently throughout the day, as though you...

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – Martin Buber I’ve learned so much about my children through our travel time...

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  Quality is not an act, it is a habit. – Aristotle liam // still struggles to enjoy math but completes it first thing each...

I’d like to introduce another gifted sponsor, Kaylan Buteyn, an artist, and the former writer and photographer behind  the The Emerald Homestead and Kaylan Buteyn Photography. Today, she’s...

Home is the nicest word there is. ― Laura Ingalls Wilder liam // opening the windows in his new bedroom burke // sweeping up the mess...

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life. ― Mary Oliver, Wild Geese ——————- “a...

It snowed this week–merely a light dusting of ice, but the kids didn’t care. They put on their warmest garb–which wasn’t quite warm or waterproofed...

  “a weekly portrait of each of my children in 2014” liam: a few months ago, he gently reminded someone making a racial comment, “I...