“I’m working on being more spontaneous,” she said with a straight face and all the seriousness of someone for whom spontaneity is struggle. She was one of my first mentors and the comment was made in passing, but it’s stuck with me for sixteen...
After the early morning flurry of getting the older two out the door and onto the bus, I reached into the refrigerator and gingerly slid out the cool, glass baking dish covered with a layer of plastic wrap and tinfoil. It was Sophia’s birthday and I was dropping...
(That’s my girl. She turned 10 this Friday!) I’m up to my eyeballs in laundry when my almost ten-year-old pops into the room. She’s been outside jumping, running, and playing with her brothers while I whirl between cooking dinner and the endless...
Wednesday morning I wanted to get 3000 words on the page, or at least 1500. I wanted to practice yoga for twenty minutes, to enjoy the sunshine and silence of the Little House after a week of kids being home for spring break. But the night before I popped...
I was sick and tired, literally. And it was Friday afternoon. I was a few minutes away from the end of my last lecture for the week, just digging in to the part where I talk about my personal connection with the text. A few minutes earlier, during a brief break...
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