Live With Flair

It’s so easy to stay isolated in winter. You want to stay in slippers and cozy clothes, sip tea, and watch movies. You’re fine just

I’m getting bogged down in revising sentences to make them perfect. The work feels weighty and stifling.  I remember my advisor’s best advice for how

At the end of my Weight Watchers meeting, our leader had a person in the back remove her sticky name tag and roll it into

I leave for my hour long walk. It takes me that long to feel settled inside and to let all my thoughts roam as they

I’m mulling over Buchner’s strange little quote: “Go where your best prayers take you.” I’m walking in the unusually warm and dark morning air, and I’m

Way back in 1998– years before marriage and children–I read about a mother who had the best relationship with her teenage daughters in a book

This time last year, I wrote about how much I love undecorating the house after the holidays. The old post appears in my Facebook feed. 

I operate in the default state of forthcoming disappointment whenever I approach the campus parking deck. I always assume my electronic transponder won’t work to

I find a new quote from Dwight L. Moody:  “All the devil’s mountains are mountains of smoke; when you come up to them, they are

I’m reading a sermon by Charles Spurgeon, delivered in 1856 at New Park Street Chapel in Southwark. The lines make me rejoice over divine mercy all over