Ira Glass on the Creative Process

Ira Glass on the Creative Process

In my last weekend edition I shared this link. Some of you might have watched it already but I also know that not everyone checks out each link - who has the time? This video is only 2 minutes and it is so encouraging to me. It describes much of ...

Series Posts

Series Posts

Over the years I've written a few series of posts. Some evolved into series, others were started with grand intentions, took a back burner for a while (homeschooling the elementary years for example - I'm hoping to complete that sometime before our youngest hits high school) and even others I ...

Spending Less Time in the Kitchen (& Menu Ideas for Winter Suppers)

Spending Less Time in the Kitchen (& Menu Ideas for Winter Suppers)

I unapologetically align myself on the radical homemaker side of the spectrum. I've been doing this work called making home for nearly two decades. It's safe to say homemaking is my longest running professional gig. And a huge part of that work, the central feature in fact, is food. The ...

It Still Snows

It Still Snows

It snowed again this week. Two big dumps of the white stuff. The storm yesterday was huge. I haven't had time to process the photos from that snow fall but fabulous stuff I tell you. Fabulous. For a family that works at home, doesn't clear their own driveway and looks ...

The Weekend Edition ~ February Break

The Weekend Edition ~ February Break

It's snowing this morning (more about that in tomorrow's post). And it's so beautiful to watch out the window. This is not a photo of this morning, but of another morning this week. This is when I write each day, as the sun is doing this to the clouds. And ...

Pocketful of Pixies

Pocketful of Pixies

One of the gifts I made this past Christmas was a Pocket Pixie doll for Brienne. I found the pattern at the Gingermelon Etsy shop from a link Mandie posted at Life Your Way (just giving credit where credit is due). Celine and Laurent actually helped me do some of ...

Gratitude & Beauty

Gratitude & Beauty

I hadn't planned to post today. In fact, it's 2:30 in the afternoon and I just took a few minutes to clear through my e-mail and thought I should watch the video my mother-in-law sent to me a couple days ago. Do you have 10 minutes? Yes, you do. Do ...