Dear Readers: Where I Am and Where This is Going
Dear readers, Let me begin by saying that I love you. And I love everything you come for on this blog–ducks, and chickens, and goats, and quail, and homeschooling, and […]
Frankly, my dears, you don’t need that kind of negativity…
I want to tell you a story. It happened a few years ago, when we looked into placing Eli in a school. Let me tell you about Eli. He’s incredibly bright. […]
It’s How the Holy Gets In
Growing up, I watched Mom vacuum all the floors, Grandma wash all the laundry, women in the kitchen at every family function while the men sat and talked in the […]
Re: Grandma and Ambition*
I’m sitting across from Grandma at the motor home table. We’re on our way to Sierra Bible Camp. Her hands are crossed demurely in front of her, her face tranquil […]
A Letter to the World On my 40th Birthday (We Are Not Alone)
Dear World, I wanted to do something really special for my 40th birthday. 40 Letters of Gratitude. 40 Acts of Kindness. Something. But man, that seemed like a lot of […]
Ten Things We Tell Our Children that Make Them Stronger
Every day, I say approximately ten thousand things to my children. Most of them are variations of “PLEASE bring the volume down,” “Where is the dadgum tape?” and “Stop gaping at […]
Blessed Mother
In a surreal turn of events that I am having a hard time processing: At almost the exact time today that one of my sons was saying goodbye to the […]
