Wings made of something as fragile as tissue paper or gauze stretched across the thinnest wire, would melt in heavy rain, would shred in strong wind, would shatter in a freeze. . . . → Read More: ~summer shorts~ survivor
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I’m reporting back from my first semester one-week residency, and I don’t think it will surprise anyone that I’m having a fabulous time in Writing School! I thought I’d share one of my favorite quick ten-minute writing prompts from the workshop portion of the week, shared by my instructor Nadia Owusu, that she picked up . . . → Read More: it’s no wonder 
I had a good day: built a garden bed, then spent 3.5 hours on the phone with Mom. She filled me up with new stories of Anna Hilda, and Hilda Louise, warrior mothers in my matriline. I am grateful for receiving some loving messages despite closing the comments. I am grateful to be able to . . . → Read More: back to writing 
I’d like to get back there one day. . . . → Read More: missing  Comments are closed  abundance, gratitude, natural world, parenting  adirondacks, being a mama, family, gratitude, grieving, love, mom, mother's day, nature, outside, saranac lake 
“When overwhelmed thinking about covid, I distract myself. Like, I think about how to write pi in binary.” . . . → Read More: ~a month in the life of a lifelong learner~ favorite college professor Leave a comment abundance, gratitude, lifelong learner, lifelong learning, parenting abundance, being a mama, consent, dinosaurs, educational priorities, fossils, graph paper, gratitude, infinity, lifelong learning, math, nature, outside, paleontology, paleontology camp, parenting, plants, reading, rubik's cube, science, trilobites, vi hart 
I am placing this image of nine-years-ago Quinn drawing a whole bunch of baby dinosaurs “standing on the floor of the egg” here to signify that there’s a lot of writing going on, gestating behind the scenes. The sun ball lamp might be my egg incubator, and I am waking up early to . . . → Read More: tender and mild 
…the wind bathing us in fresh air after a year in which breathing has become much more sacred, the eagle dancing above the rainbow-glazed waterfall… . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ caterpillar care Leave a comment abundance, gratitude, natural world, parenting, thankful thursday abundance, back yard, beach, being a mama, cows, dad, elements, family, farm, gratitude, hiking, hummingbirds, imagination, love, nature, ocean, outside, parenting, photography, placenta, rocks, snail, spiral, talking games, thankful thursday, tidepooling, waterfall 
I was putting away seeds from the flowers I grew this summer, knowing I would need to have the memory of past flowers and the hope of future flowers tucked in a safe place in order to get through the flowerless days. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ seed bank One comment abundance, gratitude, natural world, thankful thursday abundance, america the beautiful, being a mama, birds, boats, books, calendula, connection, date night, flowers, gardening, gratitude, honey, hope, husband, kitties, light, nachos, nature, outside, parsimony, rainbow, rainbow connection, raspberries, reading, red violet, regulus calendula, seeds, stars, sun ball, thankful thursday, webs, wildflowers, writing 
I’m not doing great, and I didn’t have to pretend I was. I could just stand there like a bedraggled flower and absorb some light, nothing required of me. . . . → Read More: ~thankful thursday~ bedraggled we begin 
There have been mercies this year, and because they’ve emerged amid wrecked fields of disappointments and loss, they shine like singular, luminous wildflowers. . . . → Read More: burning on the inside |
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