This current school year I've been watching Shakespeare with our three children - ages 8, 6, and 4. It is selfish in some ways because I...

It is so much fun to review a year of reading for me. How about you? Whether you got through a handful or a hundred, the practice of...

I think humans are great at overlooking the obvious. It's the blindspots of life that will get ya, every time. I see what I want to see...

For almost six years Dale and I have been meeting weekly. This isn't a date; let's call it a mashup of business meeting and emotional...

One of my sisters celebrated a birthday last week, and it reminded me of the very day she was born. I was ten and a half. I was eager and...

As I am thinking about cheap and healthy food and stretching the grocery budget, I think of tuna. Oh tuna. How do you feel about this...

With rising food costs I've been thinking about how much homemade food is a bargain. But it takes knowledge, planning ahead, shopping in...

Well, clean living is such a trend and I am years late, in a sense, to jump on the bandwagon. On the other hand, the renewed interest in...

I so enjoyed the books I read in 2021 - hardly a dud in there! This was the first year that I read more non-fiction than fiction - by one...

Supporting your running habit amongst the busy demands of life takes concentration. It's fantastic though because the high of running...

Back when school began I was looking for the right way to begin our formal school hours. I had heard of people playing the same song each...

I've been helped lately by figuring out where the "sticky" parts of life are and writing them down in detail to help solve them. When I...

I picked up Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte last week from the library. From the first page it is fresh and alive with excitement and...

I started to jog as soon as the director set our small group of runners off: "On your mark"and the loping rhythm of people falling into...

Our backyard has been the size of three city lots but will soon be reduced to a modest strip of grass, a small garden area, a good-sized...

I've been training for a half marathon for nearly three months. I'm looking at six weeks and a day to race day. I'm pumped! I'm awed and...

While it is only March 2nd, Ellensburg is being honored with an early Spring. All the earth feels the swelling out, the tremble of weeds...

I am thinking these days about living less in my head and more near the ground, more humbly interested in the small tasks of life. I have...

"Because he knew no quiet within him, he does not retain anything he desires." Job 20:20 "Solitude, stillness, and silence are the...

Yesterday I had a casual conversation with an old man named Ken. He was selling tree tops that were as large as Christmas trees and I,...