Small Moments of Great Reward

Spiderwort in the front yard "The short fall season, therefore, is a blend of both fatigue and melancholy, of final consoli...

Sunday night, my mind was stuck on food. I was not hungry; supper was filling. But I thought of food all the same. I pulled a cookbook onto...

Mending is on my mind these days. I am talking about mending in its simplest terms, which is “to make something broken, worn, torn, or oth...

Both my favorite and least favorite national “week” of the year is fast approaching. Banned Books Week begins Saturday, September 24 and en...

Lately there have been many clouds on the horizon. I am not yet ready to write about the clouds, but I can remind myself to share the sunris...

Even if we are not all writing about it today, we are thinking about it. Even if we claim we are not thinking about it, we are. Those of u...

"Hope is always a guest at our table." That line is from Redwood and Wildfire , Andrea Hairston's fantasy novel set in Ge...