
It's hard to live in this world. Let's tell stories and laugh about it. Laughing will make room for grace.
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This is the inaugural piece of a Writers in the Round series I’m doing with three other writers here on Substack. Further explanation is at the end of this piece— I can’t wait to introduce you to my friends!
Every summer, for the p...
For Mother’s Day this year, I asked Andrew for a cut-flower garden. I got two of them. When one marries a horticulturist, one expects to have a cut-flower garden from the beginning. But one might forget that a horticulturist still has to wo...
A Foreword of Sorts: I wrote this piece a year ago to take to a writer’s workshop in Colorado. Before I left for the workshop, I printed off four copies of this article and mailed it to my grandfather to distribute to his coffee group, who...
We were sitting on the porch of my in-laws’ lake house, finishing up our blueberries and cream when it happened. My oldest son, Wilson, his back to the water, stopped mid-bite and looked up. Looked up like someone had called his name. We wa...
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