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February 2014

February 07, 2014

Good Words (What’s on my chalkboard this week)

It's back! My chalkboard! Hopefully soon I'll be adding some more interesting tidbits (ie posts...

October 2013

October 15, 2013

Thankful Tuesday: Hay and Apples

We had yesterday off from school. So what better way to spend a beautiful October...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

In Real Life (a guest post from Sarah Dunning Park)

I love that Sarah Dunning Park is here today. Believe it or not, though Sarah...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

What I was into: February

My favorite of the Friday chalkboard quotes: What I Read (or Will be Reading) I...

February 15, 2013

My Chalkboard: Jane Kenyon

I love Jane Kenyon (who died in 1995). She was the first poet...

February 04, 2013

What I’m Into: January (a couple days late)

Well, I don't think I should start this post as a resident of San Francisco...

January 2013

January 18, 2013

My Chalkboard: Christine Valters Painter

From The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom

November 2012

November 27, 2012

Thankful Tuesday after Thanksgiving

For a sweet, small Thanksgiving with friends. I love hosting parties with my husband. And...

November 21, 2012

Thanksgiving in their words…

This is a repost from last Thanksgiving. But how can I not post it again?...

November 01, 2012

One Last Moving Day Post

We’re moving today. Are you so sick of me saying that? Me too. So, in...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

A Woman of Valor, who can find? (A review of Rachel Held Evans’ A Year of Biblical Womanhood)

A project like A Year of Biblical Womanhood, in which Rachel Held Evans spends a...

October 11, 2012

The Ministry of Friendship

Saturday morning, Chris took the boys in search of the perfect San Francisco donut and...

September 2012

September 07, 2012

Septemberish Bookish Sweetness

These past six weeks haven’t been my most productive times of reading. Too many nights...

July 2012

July 03, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Birthdays, Bookshelves, Old/New friends, Green Drink, and on and on…

You know that problem you have when you show up at a new friend’s...

June 2012

June 07, 2012

Good words for a Thursday

A collection of thoughts . . . Just some words that are marking me....

May 2012

May 24, 2012

She lists some things she’s loving.

Oh, friends. Are you so tired of me saying it’s been quite a week? If...

May 11, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: W.S. Merwin

This week I started Lauren F. Winner’s Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis. I love...

May 03, 2012

For those of us who need Good News…

On Fridays I usually post a poem that I've read that week or that has...

April 2012

April 12, 2012

Andrea Palpant Dilley: Doubt, Flat Tires and the Goodness of God

I first noticed Andrea Palpant Dilley when she shared her testimony in front of our...

February 2012

February 08, 2012

{Praciticing Benedict} The Sacred Vessels of the Altar

"All the utensils of the monastery and in fact everything that belongs to the monastery...

January 2012

January 24, 2012

‘The hours illuminated and celebrated’: Thankful Tuesday

"Cast out from the luxuriant friendship and ease of the hours, we feel a blankness,...

January 02, 2012

So she makes some resolutions…

...and they are: The pursuit of more silence. Seriously, how unspecific can I be here?...

September 2011

September 15, 2011

Wise Stuff My Husband Said {A Series}: Beauty and Brokenness

Two weeks ago when August had his traumatic day at school, I was a mess...

September 06, 2011

80 degrees, cool breeze, breakfast tacos: a list

It's Thankful Tuesday! A List: Eighty degrees and a cool breeze! My baby sleeping on...

August 2011

August 02, 2011

be thankful, be thankful

What a week it’s been. I’m writing this after just returning from “Cousin’s Camp” with...

July 2011

July 21, 2011

We Need a Horse and how to be weirdly grateful

Yesterday, my dear friend Katie (in San Francisco) sent me a package with two letters,...

July 11, 2011

Summer Reading!

Dear people who don’t mind hearing about the details of my life (why do you...

July 08, 2011

The books that shaped you?

While I’m on vacation, I thought it might be fun to ask this question again....

June 2011

June 13, 2011

Restoration: The Sword of the Lord and Me

I remember the first time I left a family conversation, excused myself to the bathroom...

May 2011

May 31, 2011

It’s (Almost) Grateful June!

So, I’ve been reading Ann Voskamp’s blog a lot lately. I’ve known about her blog...