I had not expected, at a concert in the gym at our kids’ school last month (one of many concerts during this time of year), to hear...

The columbines I never planted in our backyard are blooming again. It seems like every year a new one pops up, born from the seeds of...

It’s been almost a year since I published a post (entitled “Onward!”) about the turning of the year from 2020 to 2021. At that time,...

On the last day of school before Thanksgiving break, my sensible, planner side urged me to focus on my to-do list while I still had a...

It feels strange to think about death on a day like today, when the sugar maple in our backyard is at the peak of its red-orange glory. ...

We stood on the edge of the hill, watching. One by one the other runners from our school passed by, and my daughters and I cheered for...

Sometimes you don't know something until after you've said it. At least if you're a highly verbal extrovert like myself whose thoughts...

All of us probably have some area of our lives where we place too much weight on what other people think. Maybe it's job performance,...

It’s February—how are you doing with your New Year’s resolutions? Or maybe you decided, as I had for the past couple of years, that it...

After Christmas this year, we drove down to Waco, Texas to visit my dad. (We were very careful as far as COVID-19 precautions go, both...

Words like ‘thankful’ and ‘joy’ seem to be everywhere during this time of year, from late November into December. Sometimes gratitude and...

Today is the feast of the Archangels. Since it falls within an unusually packed week of good feasts to celebrate with the kids—St....

This is a photo of our middle child, the gentle, steady one whose emotional antennae are so well tuned she could give most adults...

(adapted from a Facebook post I wrote on 8/5/20) This morning I took a small, reasonable risk--I went back to the gym for the first time...

Our son says he's "not into religious stuff," but when it comes to nature he has the heart of a mystic. Crossing over a woodland creek,...