I look forward to this season every year, when the home twinkles and the hearth glows, when the kitchen smells of spices and baked goods...

Few things make my heart swell more with gratitude than when people I love gather around our table, especially when it is glowing with beeswax...

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...

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.  — Ecclesiastes 3:1  After our trip alone to Taos this summer,...

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit We’re nearing the final days of May, a little shocking for...

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....

Cooking is both simpler and more necessary than we imagine. It has in recent years come to seem a complication to juggle against other complications,...

For years, my sister and I have talked about having a fancy party with our kids on New Year’s Eve, but each year something happens–sickness,...

This time of year always feels concentrated and rich, like a dark chocolate truffle–something special meant to be taken in slowly. Like so many of...

If you’ve followed along here for any length of time, you know I have always used this space as a sort of visual and written...