A Conviction Put to Words I have a conviction. It’s one that I never intended to share on the blog. It’s personal; convictions often times are. It’s a conviction that has stirred deep down in my heart since we began this whole food journey almost 2 years ago, but one that I’ve only recently been […]

That Looming Hour at the End of a Day Looming at the end of our day’s to-do list, dinner often evokes a slight sense of both panic and dread as the hour grows nearer and prep time grows shorter. Time originally planned for dinner’s creation is increasingly swallowed up by the tasks preceding it. Hours […]

Once-Perfect-Now-Broken We found the perfect tree this year. That is, until a toddler came along and made a poor choice, a door fell, a crash was heard, and the tree was found laying discombobulated on the floor. The tree wasn’t the only one left discombobulated. Branches bent, gaping holes, broken ornaments, lights falling off. A […]

There Is Always Reason To Celebrate Some days seem unfruitful. Unproductive. So swallowed up in distractions that I have no time to even begin writing out my to-do list, let alone cross anything off of it. But then I stop, and it’s with this cease to push and strive  that something far greater results– I […]

I’ve been reading this book. It’s one of those books that you pick up, and you just can’t set it down. It draws you in, the words so raw and ideas so profound, compelling, convicting, that you want to stop reading. But you can’t. It necessitates change. 1. The little boy laughing in his sleep […]

Some Sound Advice on Approaching Strangers During my high school years my sister and I worked together at Panera bread. One Halloween my boss somehow convinced us to go out reverse trick or treating as a means of advertising. Dressed up in our Panera aprons and hats, we set out with bags of fresh bagels […]