camping

This past weekend we went to a lovely campground exactly 32 minutes from home. It had a pool, a lake with a slide and good fishing, and trees. I do not like campgrounds that are just huge parking lots with hookups; I want to be near the trees. Most campgrounds near the beach are just […]

weekly photos vol 8

weekly photos vol 7

The mirror that knows me

I moved our old mirror out of the boys room before I painted. Justin slid it in the nook behind our door, behind the laundry basket. Later that night, I walked by and saw myself in it and felt at home. I felt alive. I felt seen by myself. In our Kentucky home, that mirror […]

weekly photos vol 6

my influencers

All it took was listening to this podcast episode from Bible Project and I was in a bookstore buying the Apocrypha. Consider me influenced. Highly recommend the episode.

hang it on the wall

I’m rereading I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet by Shauna Niequest. It’s been a few years and the tagline is “discovering new ways of living when the old ways stop working” and if that’s not what I want to do right now, I’m not sure what is. I keep outgrowing spaces, but I want […]