Live With Flair

I arose early to decorate the kitchen with a graduation banner and balloons, make almond pastries, and begin this day of celebration of all the

Welp. Graduation looms. My youngest will walk the stage tomorrow, receive her diploma, and then it’s off to Penn State in the fall. I felt

Do you remember the friend who came to my aid when I was stranded at the Charlotte airport? Well, she talked to me about this

It’s such a delight to see this excerpt of This Seat’s Saved on Ann Voskamp’s lovely blog today. The first young reader who finished the

Lately, I’ve come to see my morning quiet time in my mustard recliner as a morning coffee with dear friends. Piled around me, all in

This morning, I reflected on a paragraph in Andrew Murray’s book The Ministry of Intercession. He writes this: “In [intercessory prayer] we too are called

At the last minute today—right as we chose our golden marigolds for our front bed by the ginkgo tree—we decided we do, after all, want

I often read posts about how great new technologies are and how they’ll maximize our productivity and allow us to do more and more and

This summer—for the next 6 weeks—I’m earning a certification in Trauma-Informed Pedagogy for Higher Education. Technically, the title is this: Certificate in Building Resilience through

I’m standing there, pruning my plumcot tree, and behold! I see an actual baby plumcot! It’s the size of a large, green olive. I cannot