The flowers are in bloom, and the sun is high. Here’s a little poke around the garden. We are also growing some veggies: tomatoes, kale, zucchini, snap peas, basil, watermelon, and pumpkin. But, they are all in their baby stages just yet. I will give a veggie update next month when they have (fingers crossed) […]
Category: Bloom where you are planted
The dishwasher is humming quietly from the kitchen, and the puppy is snoozing in the corner. Harper is packing her backpack, and Jameson is stealing a few more hoops outside before night takes its full descent. Jason is making small circles on my shoulder as I sit down to type a grateful goodbye to the […]
November 1. There is a peace in my soul when this month arrives. For me, it welcomes the quiet that has patiently waited for its role as lead. It waited through the births of spring and through the playfulness of summer. It crept a little closer when fall arrived but knew to wait still, through […]
Please give me a moment to brag about my husband here. With eighteen years of teaching, an education degree, and an MBA, Jason is a wise guy (in more ways than one :). He is innovative in the way he approaches his classes. Sure, he wants students to learn to live life in healthy ways […]
October is the best, isn’t it? The beginning of cozy season … Welcome to our fall home! Happy Autumn to you!
Recently, the kids and I cleaned out bookshelves, making hard decisions about which books we felt ready to donate, and creating room for new ones. We ended up with a sizable stack that we were ready to pass along to others. We love to give books to friends or donate them to Good Will or […]
A while back, I posted about things that were cozy – all the things from fires to sharpened pencils to clouds and tea. Cozy things are what I most enjoy about life. But summer is in full swing now, and there is so much light! Summer is airy and big and yellow. It makes me […]
I knew it would come! The green, it’s sprouting. The last time I was here, things were more like a muddled brown. I had to be patient. Today is May 1, and it is hard to not feel a little surge of optimism on this day. For most of us, there are more days of […]
So, it is not green here yet. March insists on layering this landscape with a dull and pestering brown. The trees are sticks and bones, the grass flat and crunchy, and spits of dust hover above the sidewalk as we walk by. In some ways, I appreciate its lackluster presence, because it is acting like […]
I woke up this morning and heard a song that I hadn’t heard in a very long time. It felt so profound, on this day, at this moment in time. 2022 has come in with a roar, with lots of worry, with missing pieces, with a desire for answers, and it feels like rain. But, […]
