(my daily blog)
As I write the summer devotions for my daughters, I’m reminded every moment of Parker Palmer’s great words, “We teach what we most need to
I’m rolling my eyes as I look out to the garden. I have to harvest the berries again. It takes so long. I get so
Last night, I’m searching two different stores for little summer devotional books for my children. I want to take seriously my role in helping them
This morning, after I find myself elbow deep in a strawberry patch, I spend some time reading Psalm 103. No matter how many times I
On the walk home from dropping the children off at school, the neighbors and I see a baby robin leave the nest. He stands there
The winning pie at the Boalsburg Memorial Day Fair is something I haven’t even imagined in my mind before. Coconut Key Lime. You know my
On Memorial Day, I pause with the kind of awareness that brings tears to my eyes. I’m aware of my particular freedoms–the smallest ones that
Our is the word you should remember. This isn’t authentic Scandinavian pastry. I’m not even Scandinavian (I don’t think), but I did, as a little
Do you remember exactly two years ago my huge gardening mistake? I put my strawberry plants in the ground, and I bragged about all the
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