Live With Flair

For several days, I’ve just felt so bad about writing. I’m so discouraged! I actually googled, “advice for discouraged writers.” I found a great little

I love my daughters’ piano teacher. This is the same amazing woman who called my daughter after her public failure at Barnes and Noble to

Today my oldest gets 4 teeth pulled–um, I mean lifted. The orthodontist doesn’t tell her they are being “pulled”; those teeth are simply being “lifted.”

Today, we visit the dairy cows down the road. We can’t stop asking questions about life with the cows. We learn all about waking up

The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness:The Path to True Christian Joy, by Tim Keller, is a small little book that reorients the soul. I’ve been personally struggling

After school today, my youngest begs for a play date. I tell her that’s not in the plan. She wants to watch TV. I tell

Today I receive the sad news that a dear friend’s son has died from cancer. I’ve followed this journey through her eyes as she wrote

It wasn’t exactly an easy journey to school. With a two hour delay, I thought by 10:30 AM, the plows would have cleared the snow.

Today, my students discuss suffering and loss in the context of Japanese haiku. Various writers suggest that we suffer so much because we’re so attached

This morning, we rejoice that it’s 30 degrees outside. We can’t believe our good fortune! We can’t believe we can walk to school without going