No, I'm not having a baby.  (Last weekend, I got to borrow my brother's baby, Charlotte, for a while. Yum.) But, this blog is movi...

"Mom," said Caroline as we drove along -- truly, there's no place like the car for great discussions -- "I think the eart...

Today I'm thinking about a certain yawning chasm. It's the chasm between my ideals and my real, actual life. I know that sounds...

Hey friends! Hope you all had a pleasant weekend. If you were able to go outside, because it wasn't either a) hurricaning in your gene...

Well, knock my socks off and straight into the wash, as Paula Deen would say.  My children appear to be channeling normal school kids.  ...

(Well, not a river, exactly, but a good, hearty, rushing creek. Our favorite creek.  The one where we've spent hours wading, swimming, b...

Whew. Busy week. Planning, hosting, shopping, driving ... it all makes for a thin margin of time to write. But, still plugging along with ...