Let go and dance
This past year—and in fact, for a long time now, but the lessons have intensified this year—I have been learning to let go. To say it…
This past year—and in fact, for a long time now, but the lessons have intensified this year—I have been learning to let go. To say it…
My sons’ father took this photo of me on our honeymoon, in September 1986. If you had told me that day I’d be leaving the marriage…
This is the semi-Amish quilt I bought at the annual Amish auction in Rexford, Montana, in 1995. True Amish quilts don’t use printed fabrics, only solids,…
“We are all floating in a tremendous river and the river carries you along. Some of the people in the river are swimming against the current,…
1. It’s been seven years already since he died. When Dad died two days after Father’s Day in 2008, I thought, “Great. Now every June will be…
Claus Dalby creates astonishingly beautiful tulip displays, both in his Denmark garden and in pots. I especially love this monochrome collection at his gate: big tubs…
Ever since I took a break from Facebook a few months ago, Jenny has been calling periodically to give me quick 5 or 10 minute blasts she refers to as my Facebook…
If you don’t already subscribe to Maria Popova’s blog, my question to you is “Why not?” As one reader puts it, reading Brain Pickings is “like walking into…
April fish. But wait, it’s no joke. Of course I’m dying. So are you. We are all dying, right from the moment we are born, and…
I did not expect to be still so long: a whole season. My cherished peaceful season—winter—which I normally let enfold me like a soft duvet that muffles the noise of…