Here are a few of my recent posts:
I Wish Older Women Were Creating Like Grandmas Used to Do
I’ve recently begun working at a little library in the mountains. The largest section of books is Large Print books, specifically Christian Fiction Large Print, which tells you a lot about the demographics of this library. It’s cute that I’m the “young blood” here. I adore the ladies, listening to their stories and learning from…
Here Again
Life has been hard, I’m just going to be super honest about that. Not in a hunger way or in a mourning way, but there are so many ways for life to be hard, and I’ve been in one of those ways. I’m sure you know exactly how it feels. This rut has been a…
Owning Land but for a Moment
It’s generational deep in my American culture to desire to own land. It took decades for me to acquire an amount of it larger than a normal lot. Now that I have it, in my circumspective (is that the right word?) and presumably wiser years, I realize I don’t really own it. Let me explain.…
How to Stop Procrastinating on a Creative Project
My husband gave me a weaving loom a year ago. It is so beautiful and is something I have dreamed of owning since I was a young wife and visited the historical village at the North Carolina entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I have admired it all year. I polished the metal…
Focusing on My Rivendell (Home)
I’m here, waiting on college admissions to get back to me on a glitch that lets my kid register for 9 credits, but not a full-time load. I need someone to push a button. I’m waiting for the financial aid office to get back to me on the surprise word “ineligible” that appeared in our…
How I Stay Informed Yet Balanced (when I remember this) regarding “the News”
It is sometimes hard to be in this digital world, which is intriguing and interesting enough to draw us in, but lecturey and alarming enough to chase us out. I think the secret to the balance is having only a few issues of focus – a couple of hills you’d fight for on a battlefield.…
