Back in February a couple of my high school friends came to the desert for a visit. Human connection is such a beautiful thing. I think we feel it’s beauty more than ever in the world right now where it is so limited. It made me so grateful for these…
I can’t let too much time slip away after the 4th to come here to write my gratitude for this imperfect country where I live…a country filled with people who are willing to work to progress and build bridges and right wrongs. We have much work to do, but we…
I have an incredible niece. Ok, well, I am lucky enough to have a LOT of incredible nieces, but one of them is doing some pretty big things recently like accepting an offer to swim and study at Columbia (!), and putting together a “senior project film premier” evening to…
I’m trying to figure out how to ever catch up in this space! A space to record what is happening in our family. It seems strange to go on recording every-day events when the world is in such turmoil. I have also wondered if it is taking too much time…
I’m trying to write about some of the things we did when we got EVERYONE home during the quarantine, but I’m getting overwhelmed with too many pictures. So here’s a separate post about one night when we rode bikes through the slanted evening sun (back when it wasn’t cook-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk type…
Try as I might, I can’t seem to keep my children from growing older. How in the world is my third turning NINETEEN today?? In my heart of hearts it just doesn’t seem possible. But there she is, standing in front of me, full of light and goodness, the best…
On Tuesday Dave and I celebrated our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Gosh. How does all that time fly by so fast? Weren’t we JUST here, on our honeymoon, eyes wide and bright for the future? And yet, those years have also been slow. I did some serious reminiscing as I worked…
Back when Lucy and I were in the hospital for her back surgery (HERE), the world spinning around her after her surgery, wanting to cling on to something solid and safe and good to get her mind off of the pain, she asked me to tell her a “Mirror Land”…
Gosh, I’m so nostalgic going through pictures of the dads in my life this morning! And I want to write a whole novel about them but I think it’s more important to really BE with them so I’m going to let the pictures tell most of the story. I’m so…