Live With Flair

This morning on the way to church, we’re talking about how we can’t wait for next summer because the artichokes take two years to produce.

While my husband was busy doing this before the coming snow. . . I emptied packages of fresh cut butternut squash, turnip, and sweet potato

I realizing the power of deciding beforehand in order to eliminate decision-making and stress in the moment. This works for more than just morning routines!

In between my two classrooms on campus, a tangled mess of a tree sits. Those low sprawling branches look more like the root structure than

My daughter arrives indoors with the ripest, most juiciest blackberry I’ve ever seen. She pops it in her mouth and says, “See, I told you.

It’s a small object, usually lost, often overlooked, but of prime importance in our family. I present to you that the Goody Ouchless Elastics (hair

Today I realize how much I need a cheerleader (or two or three–maybe the whole squad). I do! Even with my over-the-top energy, enthusiasm, and

This morning I read the prophet Jeremiah’s poem in Lamentations 2. Here, he writes God’s words of sadness over sin. He says, “Your wound is

Today’s the day we try on winter coats and boots to see what we need for the new season. Children grow so fast! We grow

I find myself noticing all the friendship and dating relationships emerging within the one class where that one brave student called on the first day,