I don’t know about you, but these days I’m clinging desperately to anything that feels like hope. Christmas decorations up before Thanskgiving? Normally no but what the heck this year, it’s 2020 and the halls were decked. Got the shopping done early. Prayed for snow. Apparently, as I unloaded my bag of Christmas goodies at […]
a poem
A liturgy of feeling the carpet below my socked feet and bowing in worship listening to YouTube releasing all to Almighty God as I breathe out. Exhalation. The solace of slowly dicing onions sliding them off the knife into melted butter to simmer quiet music soothing preparing hot soup to nourish my family. Creation. The […]
Eating Healthy in Survival Mode (it CAN be done)
Raise your hand if meal planning has caused you problems. If you’ve tried every method in the book to stay organized and list meals, buy the ingredients for those meals and then cook them on certain days of the week. But failed. Over and over again. There are dozens of brilliant meal planning strategies out […]
3 Books to Read When Life is Hard
Once an optimist, always an optimist, I think. The hard parts of life keep surprising me. I think I subconsciously believe that if I would just heal completely, or if my husband would just get his dream job, or if my kids would grow out of tattling or whining, that everything would be peachy keen […]
It’s Time to Buy a Yoga Mat
I have a complicated history of caring for myself. Over the past decade, the suggestion of yoga slipped into my life from this person and that. A printed instructional sheet of yoga moves someone gave me that I practiced in my college dorm room. (Oh, the first time I posed in warrior one I never […]