Live With Flair

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

On the soccer field today, I’m amazed at my daughter’s passing skills. She’s been working so hard to pass the ball.  The parents cheer from

Every year, our giant peony bush produces the most gorgeous bright pink blooms.  And every year, I wonder why in the world the woman who

I learn the hard way that I’m cutting lilac blooms all wrong.  I look at my vase and frown.  What happened to my lilacs?  They

The children find a sassafras tree and show me how to tear the leaves to experience the extraordinary smell of root beer. I’m a city