I come from Story Tellers. (More on this another time.) I know really good story tellers. One of them, David, introduced…

March is My Month. Daffodils come up (the sisters excelled at bulb placement). The weather is completely unpredictable (exciting!). I…

I set up my sewing machine in February and tried to surround myself with familiar things and familiar feelings. Making…

(January, 2016) Truly is sitting next to me on the couch. She had built a nest or maybe a horse with…

I started 2016 with the covers pulled over my head. We had cancelled our New Year's Day Open House (the…

In the fall of 2015 A and M's older brothers moved in with us. We put up curtains and bunk…

"The law is meant to be my servant and not my master, still less my torturer and my murderer." James…

J and I have everything and nothing in common. We share kids, a dry sense of humor, and a disdain…

This summer was hard and wonderful. Hard. We are not as good at being parents as we appear to be.…