Live With Flair

Today we venture into all the things we’ve saved for a rainy day.  The movies and popcorn!  Long visits to the library!  Knitting!  Boardgames! We

I arrive at the part of summer devotions where I ask my daughters when they felt most loved. One says it’s when she held her

I’m reading a book about alligators with my youngest daughter, and I learn the definition of a keystone species. A keystone species uses the environment

I’m reading a line in Jamie Zeppa’s memoir from her time in Bhutan about her love of secret places. As a child, she loved finding

The wind whips around my body as I bend down to the strawberry patch. Within only a moment, the garden darkens. I look up, amazed

It’s the last walk to school!  I tell the parents, “It’s the end!  It’s really the end!”  One father says, “Or the beginning.”  It is

Today I have lunch with a dear friend who truly knows how to have a great family. I couldn’t wait to talk to her and

When I moved to this town and showed up to retrieve my oldest daughter from kindergarten, a woman came to find me. She introduced herself,

I find myself reading Ever Bitter Thing is Sweet whenever I can.  Today, I read the entry, and I want to hug this woman, read

As I write the summer devotions for my daughters, I’m reminded every moment of Parker Palmer’s great words, “We teach what we most need to