I looked out my window yesterday and I felt as though I had been given permission to breathe. I didn’t know I had been waiting for it. That is the alive part, the breathing, physically, spiritually – all of it. ♥ I let something go yesterday, one thing I’ve been trying and trying and trying [...]

It was early, early morning, long before I should have been up. There was a mist outside, and a streetlight falling through it onto our neighbors’ blossoms, and though I was tired, I couldn’t resist the lure of the dark. It spoke deep to me of my story, spoke color to me that I’d covered [...]

I feel a little frozen lately. I’ve been putting off decisions and pushing off work because I’ve been waiting on a few projects. The wait is making me question decisions I’ve made, offering opportunities for new choices, leaving me less certain of the direction I’ve been going. Every time I’ve come through one of these [...]

I’ve been making mental notes lately, about things I never thought I’d think about, and things I’ve learned in the middle of the crazy we’ve been rushing around in for a while. I thought I’d share. Just because it is random and I am feeling random and not-so-poetic today in my Messy Office Which Must [...]

I have been watching my babies, thinking about time, and how there is never enough of it – not for me, not for them, not for anyone. My son has lately begun yelling for his food “right now” while I prepare his meals in the kitchen. My daughter speaks on instant repeat looking for immediate [...]

I paced the bookstore aisles as if I’d been caged, flipping through journals, looking for whitespace. I needed whitespace. The kind I could fill with the words and feelings pounding like battering rams behind my eyes. The store didn’t carry what I was looking for, so I finally settled on two blank journals that left [...]

I tell Piper that prayer isn’t anything hard – it’s just telling God about her day. I tell her that He likes it when she talks to Him. Every night I tell her that He loves her more than we ever could. I tell her these things because I believe them. Because they are simple [...]