The Hope of Spring

Apparently, here at God’s Whisper, we celebrate Ash Wednesday by a) doing our first blog post in weeks about the farm, b)running over to the neighbor’s pasture to play with our new friend the horse, and c)sleeping under the table and in the hot water...

Bakhtin and The Puppy Bowl: A Call for More Intellect

This morning, my friend L sent me this excerpt from David Shields’ new book How Literature Saved My Life, andI read it with a lot of eagerness.  First, I was intrigued by the idea as presented by one of my favorite writers – I wanted to see what he had to...

The Stuff Worth Doing Is Hard.

I moved here to God’s Whisper Farm five months ago today. In that time, we have cleared the land from grass over my head. We have opened up the pasture so that we can have goats. We have begun clearing the driveway up to the timberframe lodge. We have made great...

What Joan Didion and I Have in Common

I first ran this post over 18 months ago on a day much like this one.  I don’t know what brings mine on hormones, changes in weather, sugar.  But when they hit, I can barely think.  So today, I hope you’ll forgive a repost, and I hope you’ll share...

Timberframe Lodge Prep

Up the mountain from the little blue farmhouse, I want to build a timberframe – my dream house. It will be a space with lots of wood and stone, a big wide-open room that spans into kitchen and dining room with a fireplace where three can plop and warm their...