Live With Flair

This morning after church, we visit the grocery store and let our daughters run to the very back where all the bins of “penny candy”

This week, I find a quote from Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Borges states, “Every destiny, however long and complicated, essentially boils down to a

This week, I learn that sometimes fear and imagining the worst motivates folks more than hope.  Instead of putting up photos of your dream life,

This morning, the Local Artist and I confess our problems with proximity.  We’re on a health and weight loss journey together, and we realize we

I’ve spent all day thinking about Joe Paterno.  I’ve navigated my way through media vans, through tears, through crowds, through countless twitter updates.  Even now,

Today I observe the way cats bathe each other.  Cats know that some places you just can’t reach alone: behind the neck, way down the

Today, I don’t mind the Pennsylvania landscape. Our Little Sledding Hill The Big Wide World The wide space of it soothes the soul and brings

This morning–before my eyes open, before the cats clamor and fuss for food, and even before coffee–my daughters bounce and squeal on the bed. “You

Today I remember an author who shaped my spirituality in my mid-twenties.  During that deepest darkness of despair–when you’ve lost hope–certain written voices bring you