My husband just spent 4 hours detangling this $4 skein of rainbow yarn I carelessly unraveled and I’ve never been more in love.
My kitty boy is basically the handsomest, and he knows it. Such a cutie Kemura Saisho Ototto (so named by my anime-obsessed teen) doesn’t come for pets very often. But when he does, look out, because he’s a purr box. Like our two dogs and our other cat, Capitano, Saisho came to us via Antietam…
I am so excited about growing stuff. Like stupid excited. About 10 days ago, I planted beans. What I mean is I actually put beans in the ground and covered them with dirt. Now they look like this: Multi-colored beans grown from seeds Take that, Jack! (That was a Jack and the Beanstalk reference, in…
I miss my mother. This morning, the feeling came through loud and clear in my journal, and to be honest, it kind of surprised me. We didn’t talk much when she was alive. Too often, I was caught up in my own stuff, unwilling to burden or be burdened. But there are times when all…
A message for you to keep going I wrote this today. Or maybe it wrote me… I believe in my heart of hearts that I will always have enough. Can I say I am enough? That one’s tougher, but that’s where I need to get to. That’s an important part of my journey. I wonder what can…
Last night I turned in bed, ruminating on the things I need to let go of and the people I want to pull closer. There’s a kind of spiritual calculus that only happens in the dark. The solution is what you are.
So close, yet so almost dead. We have a very cool, very large barn on our property. And there’s an asphalt driveway that connects it to the road. But there was one small problem. We couldn’t open the doors. See, the asphalt driveway leads to the center sliding doors, which is fine, but on either…