Carrying beauty with you…
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Just some of the…
A weekend to remember
It really was. When my friend Jen surprised me and told me she was flying out from NJ from my birthday a couple weeks ago, I knew we’d have a great time, but…
Photos from the writing conference
The writing conference last weekend was great! We had an incredible lineup of speakers and about 165 writers and illustrators, all gathered together in one place. Here are some of…
A new thing…
Happy first week of spring, everyone! I hope this season is filled with new things for you! “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you…
And then there were… ducks!
The other morning, Mike was telling the kids how he’d been seeing ducks fly over our house lately. Just a few hours later, that same day, we got a couple of…
Friendship…
These birds land in one of the redwood trees in our backyard almost every day around 5:00 pm. Friendship is a sheltering tree. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge For more “Wordful” / Wordless…
Closer…
One of the butterflies we released, taking a rest on our pear tree before flying away. “I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.” ~Author…
Winter is…
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire. It is the time for…