Posted in Spiritual Life, Writing on Jan 27th, 2012
Earlier this month, I declared 2012 my year of prayer. This year, I said, I want to pray more often, more deeply, more intentionally. As I’ve pondered what this might look like, Eugene Peterson pointed me in a surprising direction. In a different book than the one I quoted last time, he writes of his [...]
Posted in Raising kids, Writing on Jan 24th, 2012
Two days before we left on our trip, Jack and I had the writing date he’d proposed just before Christmas. We walked down to the coffee shop where I write on Friday afternoons. I bought two steamed milks, plain for me, with vanilla for him. We sat at my usual table by the window. He [...]
Posted in Raising kids, Reading, Writing on Nov 18th, 2011
When my mother-in-law spied an illustrated copy of Anne of Green Gables at her thrift store, she scooped it up for me. She knows my love of children’s books, especially the classics. But she didn’t look past the cover of the book. If she had, she would have seen that it’s not just illustrated. It’s [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.
