We took a surrey ride in Philadelphia. Surrey rides promise to: Catch the attention of passersby! Provide transportation plus...

I wish to be impulsive Needs must Practical always wins When does the whim of the self Surpass duty Comfortable Safe Sheltered A peace...

A titmouse shoots from the metal finial to the peach tree where I stand, hopping closer, branch by branch, until I can meet its curious...

Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the nearest puff. I wrote that Annie Dillard...

Sometimes it's easier to do the hard thing than the thing I desire. It's cleansing, working myself into a state of utter exhaustion by...

To validate someone is to acknowledge that they are complete in their humanity. Being human means one has feelings, reactions, ideas, and...

Yesterday's Easter was like a golden retriever: It took nothing out of me, it filled me with love, and it calmed my nervous system....

I planted a peony bulb in the fall of 2020. It's the type of peony I used to cut out of magazines as a little girl and paste onto...

The sun is gliding toward the horizon on this gentle spring day. I always look up the street at dusk. We live at the bottom of a hill,...

My new favorite song is Crowded Table by The Highwomen. You can hold my hand When you need to let go I can be your mountain When you're...

"There is no connection between creativity and age. There is only a connection between productivity and age." Albert-László Barabási,...

One of my goals as a parent is to give my children the tools to navigate life's ups and downs. That's the benefit of progress: each...

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Beauty itself is the language to which we have no key[.] Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Clementi

In middle school I read through the entire Bible, Old & New Testament, three times. I'm talking cover to cover, with footnotes. I took...

To me the small things are significant. Earlier, I noted how articulate C was in telling me about his fight with B yesterday, and how...

Yesterday my son's equine therapy was canceled because his therapist was sick. For the past month my daughter has gone to her...

Briefly, because today is early release at the elementary school: Podcast: We Can Do Hard Things, Episode 194, on healing from her eating...

Yesterday my son stayed home from school with a cold. He recovered enough to play outside by early afternoon, and we spent a good chunk...

The intermittent sun of early spring. Tiny lupines, some still closed, with green and purple stripes, some with ten pointy petals and...