A small group of children, all cousins, stood on a driveway in the forest-covered hills of central PA, giddy, waiting. Every year, for the last 13 years, our extended family has gone away together for …
Finding My Courage
The hotel room is dark. Maile is asleep in the bed beside me. A short line of white light shines under the door on the other side of the room. The yellow street lights glow between the blinds. The air …
A Follow Up to that One Blog Post I Wrote About Sam Thinking Maile Went to College to be a Mom
The older four kids were in the kitchen, slicing, dicing, and making dinner. At one point they kicked Sammy out (he was rather pleased at that result), but I insisted they take him back. It was a team …
Some Thoughts on Erasing the Things We Create
When I left the house, Lucy was nearly finished with this painting. When I came home, she had painted over it. For the whole story, head on over to The Art of Simple. …
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In Which We are Beginning to Find Our Way
"I thought Mom went to college to be a Mom," Sammy said, and he was completely serious, and we all paused for a moment before laughing hysterically, and therein surfaced one of this family's major …
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An Exciting Announcement and a New Season in my Writing Life
As Bob Dylan sang once upon a time, “The times, they are a changin’.” Have you ever felt your life slowly going in a new direction, even a good direction, but you still felt hesitant about the change …
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