My Solution to “Too Much”

Just 15 minutes ago, I drove up to the farm stand and parked with the car facing the hayfield. In front of me, a tiny stalk of cornflowers was growing.  Their blue-gray beauty sang to me. “Look here, Andi.  Look here.” My first response was to just jump...

Living More Like Wendell Berry

I’m sitting in my new office, the space that used to be the summer kitchen back when electricity was just lightning and the ownership of human beings was tragically normal. My tuckus is in the cookstove’s former location, the ceiling above me tinged by...

My Dad Is Hiking 600 Miles and Fighting Cancer!

My dad is a wild man at heart.  I think that if he had been born in the 19th century, he would have been off to the Alaskan wilderness with a tent and an ax, completely content to clear a homestead and live his days in the Yukon. In fact, I’m not sure he’d...

5 Ways The Flu Makes Me Grateful

Philip and I have both been laid low by the flu.  He’s on day 7, and I’m on day 3.  We’re relatively healthy and still this illness has kicked our tails.  Yesterday, I watched or dozed through a total of 11 episodes of Law and Order:SVU.  While I...

Curbing the Overshare – My Lenten Commitment

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying. – Sarah Dessen Perhaps the best writing advice I ever received...