We lived such a strange weekend. I got a haircut, when Pete was the one who needed one. We hung doors on two out of three closets. (We brought the cat hair in from the garage with them, and we have been sneezing since.) We made the bed. This needs to be a more regular [...]

sometimes i forget who You are, what my heart knows You look like, who I am when You are the biggest part of me. i have known You gritty deep, and wrestled You in night hours with tears and distrust until i break and You have blessed me with kind love. i forget that too, [...]

this is my quiet time. my listening time. my fade-into-the-background time. the travel, the two babies, the constant lack of time calls me quiet, calls me out of existence into the still to be found when I talk nonsense and nothing, when I don’t want my phone to ring, when I need to get through [...]

because we sometimes don’t know the way our hearts move we need to be told in words that are ordinary, strung together in simple ways, whispered low and melodic. and sometimes words don’t make the song but the song is in your eyes and in my throat with tears that fall when I see it [...]

and I do take pictures… and we take walks… and we make memories… and I count my blessings: *128 – sun-sparkle on water *129 – get-up-and-go that went instead of staying *130 – captured dandelions for little girl blowing *131 – the muddiest shoes *132 – the giggles that went with them (we two stepped [...]

Seven days ago, I simply disappeared from the Interwebs. The time had come. For too long, I’ve been living two separate identities online – writer and photographer. When I got a second Flickr account to keep the writer photos separate from the photographer photos, I knew something was coming. I couldn’t keep living in two [...]

The baby is no longer sleeping through the night. I think he is on a growth spurt. I get up early with him, put him back to sleep, find some quiet time that is just for me. I stay up late too, after the kids are asleep, to find some quiet time that is just [...]