When my daughter was born I was so excited to read aloud to her. I started reading Misty of Chincoteague when I was nursing her at a few months old. It had b...

No, this is not a post about aging. Ahem. This is a good surprise. I've been running for a year half now, with 24 weeks off for the last half of my pregnancy...

I am enjoying being part of a writing group. We set out some practices for ourselves this summer where we pick a word and then free write about whatever come...

"And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time." Ellie Wiesel in Memoirs Mr. Wiesel is an author and holocaust survivor. I'm reading his memoir and sav...

This is the time for small. Not vast. Small. Like three or four pints of apricot jam, not twenty. Like a garden of one zucchini plant, one row of green beans...

Keep a green bough in your heart and the singing bird will come. (Chinese Proverb) Have you ever just made a list of the things that energize you? I mean the...

It has been a fantastic year of reading! I have never read so many books in a year and each one was purposefully chosen for growth and challenge – I hate “fl...

“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.” Cicero It’s true that it’s really easy and even fun to jump on the bandwagon of your negative cause (“Stop d...

So you are all “in” with the idea of schole – time to learn, think, create – but you have toddlers. This is different than having a demanding job that requir...

This whole handwriting scripture and attempting to paint a face for one of the characters has been so much fun! Really, I've been surprised at how little tim...

I was lucky enough to study in London in my early 20’s. My mom sent me a book in the mail which was terrific-ly expensive! I don’t know what got into her to ...

I began watercolor painting earlier this year and I’m not great at it but I find it incredibly peaceful and life-giving – Schole, for sure. I heard Brandy Ve...

At the beginning of 2018 I set a goal to read 36 books. I thought I could chip away at 3 books a month and the only requirement would be for them not be “flu...