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This

I wake up, bleary. Hoping for a few minutes to rouse courage for the day, a few moments of quiet first as the sunView full post »

Questioning

A friend recently posted a quote from a favorite author, Donald Miller – “If the people who have what weView full post »

the Melody in the Chaos

I had a disappointing week. After hard work and recent days filled with unexpected joys and pleasant surprises, thisView full post »

“write hard and clear about what hurts”

I am writing these words to hold onto. Crafting them like a lifeboat, to carry me Pen to paper I write them intoView full post »

to believe in the work

I think I may have finally come to believe in the work of motherhood, in the artistry. I wantedView full post »

26 minutes

This is my life. 26 minutes of it. Put this on repeat all day long and sometimes into the night and you can view theView full post »

Glimpses

“They were born of our young and eager love”   –   from the movie The Family Man They wereView full post »

Gifts

I didn’t feel like celebrating Christmas this year. Thanksgiving itself was hard enough.View full post »

Resonance

Let me begin by saying that I am a dork. You probably already know that but for example… I hate Star Trek butView full post »

Not Quite Perfect

There’s a Shel Silverstein poem about a girl who can’t find anything other than herself is quite perfect,View full post »

An Offering of Thanks

“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us thenView full post »

two years at home

My baby man turned two years old this September and we celebrated for two days. Started the festivities with a trip toView full post »

everything

As the photographer, there are very few photos of me with my children. So my sweet man is learning the cameraView full post »

We Never Dated

“Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfectView full post »

Our Sweat and Tears

The sea tastes of our sweat and our tears. A deep, salty taste reaching down to all we are and can not be.            View full post »

Brothers and Sisters

I grew up in a college town but I didn’t go to college there. When you have grown up somewhere, made mistakesView full post »

Hopeless Wanderer

When I was a girl, we would walk from our little white rental house towards the university. Wandering by all the bigView full post »

Home and Class and Spirit

“I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick someView full post »

Why Homeschooling?

We teach our children not to ask the question. In the midst of the questioning that grief brings, my pastor told meView full post »

Don’t Give Up Project . Coming Home

Coming home. We fly past pine tree covered hills, and I don’t feel I have words anymore. Sitting in the backseatView full post »

Don’t Give Up Project . Day 3

Day 3 of the Don’t Give Up Project with Ash and Jeremy Parsons is like waking up to old friends and a job wellView full post »

Don’t Give Up Project . Day 2

We stepped out of time as we know it during the second day of the Don’t Give Up Project put on by Jeremy and AshView full post »

7-26-12 Perfect Day

This is what all days are meant to be. Taking pictures of Aaron’s last day of his fiveView full post »

a Study in Aaron

I was drowning in children this week. I breath in soft hair on their neck when I’m gasping for air.View full post »