Live With Flair

This morning my husband and I discuss diacouragement in our work lives. It comes! It happens! What I’ve learned in the last ten years is

Notice anything about my succulent (crassula ovata “Jade”) plant? This is the plant I’ve neglected and damaged with all my moving it about. But look!

I remember William Wordsworth’s famous line in the 1800 Preface to the Lyrical Ballads that “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes

Today I learn from my cycling friend about the Sag Wagon. She claims that on her next 100 mile bike ride, I can drive the

My daughter tells me that she’s having trouble “exporting imagination.” It’s a strange verb to use. I imagine the country of her incredible brain needing

Today I attended my first Eagle Scout Court of Honor for the son of some dear friends of ours. I cried at several points as

So many students ask me about writer’s block and how I write so much every day. When I tell them that I rarely struggle with

A student I just met–we were strangers on Monday–asks if she can photograph me for her class “Stranger Project.” “Sure,” I say. Why Not?  She

Last night, I read Gretchen Rubin’s “Habits Manifesto,” and one of her statements made me so excited. She says, “We should make sure the things

I’ve been examining the psalms in scripture, and I find myself intrigued that King David, in his last recorded words in 2 Samuel 23, was