(my daily blog)
My daughters both sign me up to bring brownies for the class Valentine’s Party. I decide to have a baking day and try some new
If you’re going to go public–through writing, speaking, or teaching–you’re going to battle self-consciousness. It’s a terrible state of being; self-consciousness is an acute (and
It’s very hard not to relax when a lazy cat lives with you. She stares you down until you curl up beside her on the
I’ve realized something new about idolatry. As I read the scriptures, I see that David connects being downcast and disturbed with somehow not hoping fully
As I prepare a writing lesson, I think about Mary Pipher’s statement that “all animals, carefully observed, have things to teach us. So does every
I consider the beautiful shadows that mark the backyard this afternoon. A shadow means the light has shown down upon that thing. It intercepts it
Ice covers the neighborhood today. I walk my daughter down the road to visit a friend. We notice how the ice on the street freezes
As I keep to the writing task, both fiction and nonfiction, my daughter reminds me that our favorite Little House book series was not published
As students work on personal essays over the next few weeks, we consider what we might pass on. We offer our life experience to others–the
She wants to bring her own appetizer to the party. Something she made, that she will think is delicious, and that everyone will gobble up.