even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in grief.  proverbs 14:13 it's okay to not be fine. it's okay to ...

the irises bloomed while we were gone - tall and violet and graceful. the girls caterpillars bloomed too - they busted out of their coc...

it wasn't dismal , per say, when we first bought the house. all i saw when we first walked through was the space and the potential. ...

it started long before that rose covered journal closed tight with that brass coloured lock. before i began to fill up those lined pages w...

there are some things i've learned as i come to the mid point of my life,  and should i be given another 37, almost 36 years, i'm su...

it's the story of a chair. kind of. it's cradled me in the cool mountain air, held me in my excitement of that sparkly ri...

it all fell apart that canadian winter - you knew it deep down too.  fractured something in us all like that -26 air did to those snapping m...

i've been told this little one could come any day... i feel  like she could come any day. and my older three, the ones who sense th...

i had wanted to document these days better. they are the last ones and i don't want to forget... i don't want to forget how differ...

it's in the last few days leading up to the busyness of the coming season that we've been talking a lot about what it means to d...

how do you write about a moment holy? a moment miraculous and stunning? they were just a small handful of women who showed up with a d...

i hear them before i see them, that brother and sister with their hands intertwined and something clutched between all twenty fingers. i h...

i grew up in a small baptist church where all the grey-haired ones became my aunties and uncles and where i would sneak a pickle or two from...