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For When You Don’t Know What to Do.
Occasionally I forget to remember that the world is not mine to balance. I watch the collective ache all around me and I ache too, because my reach is short and the needs are long and oh, how I want to...
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For Those of Us Trying Not to Make It Worse.
I’ve told you before that I’m a slow processor. But I wonder now– are you that way as well? Do you take weeks and months to sift through big events, huge feelings, meaningful changes? Because I’ve...
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Italian Chopped Salad (and my trusted salad tips.)
I love a big ole’ bowl of fresh greens but… I’m a bit of a salad snob when visiting restaurants. I rarely order a salad out unless I know it’s going to be good. Because, while some eateries really nail...
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Finding Perspective in a South African Garden.
We met them just miles from a turquoise sea, but everything was the same shade of muted brown here. A million tiny houses surrounded by grass-less yards and high stone walls; the only ocean we see is...
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On Waiting Well (and a recipe for Multi-Grain Sunflower Bread.)
As bleary-eyed new parents we went through a long waiting period. It was eighteen months of compulsively checking emails and grabbing the phone on the first tone of the first ring. We were waiting for...
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What I’ve Learned & Loved Lately (Winter Edition.)
“She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: “Winter is dead.” A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young We only had 5 full minutes of snow in the entire winter....
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What I’m Loving Lately
To Read: 7 tips for Memorizing Scripture by Carrie Rogers 10 Ways to Keep Saying Yes 20 Years Later by Caroline TeSelle for The Art of Simple 11 Ways We Embrace Traveling with Kids by Tsh Oxenreider...
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A Tradition Unlike Any Other: Green Jacket Salad
Just before the last frost of winter leaves us, this city of Augusta, Georgia begins blossoming with life. The Masters Tournament seems to affect nearly every aspect of our beautiful azalea dotted...
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To the Dads Who Carry Plenty.
Being a mother is a heavy load– we know this like we know flaked salt belongs on dark chocolate. In the push and pull of the glorious every day-ness, we can be bone-tired before the day even begins,...
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Weekend Favorites
“Cozy + smell of pancakes – alarm clock = weekend” — Amy Krouse Rosenthal Well we made it again. Another weekend, hopefully one with a little less of whatever your week needed less of. For me it was...
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What I Learned in the Spring
“Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”… “It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden Here we are, already buying...
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Rainshine. (Why hope & grief are not adversaries.)
Our Georgia summer is hot and steamy but often includes ample rain storms. Some days they chase us from the pool with thunder and quilted skies. Other days the clouds pour buckets while the sun shines...
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A Summer of Rhythm & Absence
The sun is rising higher, earlier, every day and the birdsong is drowning in the noise of a hundred frogs. We’ve plowed through dozens of sticky popsicles and my library card is practically glowing...
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Peaches & Cream Scones
Every scorching summer, I buy a ton of ripe but not yet soft peaches and bring them home gingerly as though they are made of blown glass. They cover our wooden table like a polka-dot pattern of pink...
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On Grief and Soup
I have always believed that God does not waste our pain. That there is purpose in it– to refine us, to draw us closer and to bring Him glory. But there was a time, several years ago, that I thought He...
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What I’m Loving Lately
“There was nothing like a Saturday – unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big...
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What I Learned this Summer
This is what it is to truly summer. To delight in what we hold, knowing we won’t hold it for much longer. The quarterly practice of paying attention to what I learn is important to me. The weeks tend...
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Roasted Vegetables (they’re simpler than you might think.)
Roasted Vegetables. Those two words make my foodie heart swoon. When eating out, if I see roasted vegetables on a menu, I will almost always order that thing– whatever it is. Roasting brings out all...
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On Being Settled & Apple Crisp
When we moved to Georgia several years ago, we left North Carolina at the height of a colorful Fall. Admittedly, I was afraid that the classic Autumn patchwork I loved would not show up in the South....
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Cozy Christmas Reads
The entire month of December calls me to slow down. Even though we have to fight the busy-ness off with a large stick, I love the natural slowing that eventually comes. One of the ways I remind myself...
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