Despite the new growth and expansion all around me, all those sweet plants reaching for the sun, I've been a fallow time of my life.  A time of wishing to…

Recently, while the sun warmed my face and I dug out the garden, I was thinking about perfection. About how paralyzing our need for perfection can be and what a shame…

I recently celebrated my 42nd Birthday.  I celebrated it at home with my little family, doing things a wee boy would enjoy.  It was nice.  But that night, I found…

I've been on a major learning kick this year.  All receptors open and, honestly, a bit jammed up with all of the information.  Like anything, to save my sanity, I…

Sometimes it's so hard to accept that we can only do so much at a time, and yet it's also freeing. The surrender. Surrender...often looks like a kicking-and-screaming-followed-by-peaceful-acceptance cycle for…

Well...not made me, per se, but certainly inspired me to do it! Grandma Marian, she's the one I often think of when I think about my making journey. She's the…

Have you witnessed, or experienced your own, wholehearted expression? There's a magic to it. Something I can't quite articulate; that I can only see from the corner of my eye.…

I'm pondering grace today. The word keeps surfacing in my reading and thoughts and this morning I decided to spend time with it's meaning. It's a nuanced word...moving with beauty…

My wee boy began preschool this fall.  It's been hard.  It's the first time he's been dropped off with a gaggle of other kids with or without his mama.  Each…