Live With Flair

The winning pie at the Boalsburg Memorial Day Fair is something I haven’t even imagined in my mind before.  Coconut Key Lime. You know my

On Memorial Day, I pause with the kind of awareness that brings tears to my eyes.  I’m aware of my particular freedoms–the smallest ones that

Our is the word you should remember.  This isn’t authentic Scandinavian pastry.  I’m not even Scandinavian (I don’t think), but I did, as a little

Do you remember exactly two years ago my huge gardening mistake?  I put my strawberry plants in the ground, and I bragged about all the

All week, I’ve considered how beautiful it is to finally surrender to the limits of your own life.  You stop resisting.  You stop wishing for

A stranger comments to me this morning at the gym that I’m just so positive.  After a few minutes of conversation, she couldn’t believe that

I notice that my glorious peonies no longer hold the same beauty today. They seem too big for themselves.  They collapse onto the grass and

I place the fresh nectar in the feeder for my hummingbirds, and I decide to position myself in the backyard to take the perfect photo

As I read Peter Scazzero’s Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, I begin to ask myself why blogging has been so very good for me emotionally and spiritually. 

After all these years, I’m still learning about Sabbath.  As I pray about ways to keep the Sabbath (especially with young children), I begin to