The piano tuner is here today. He's been here for over 4 hours, striking each ivory key over and over and winding the copper strings wit...

Come ye thankful people, come. Raise the song of harvest home.  All is safely gathered in. Ere the winter storms begin.  God, our Make...

They call me the Queen of Poly. Well, okay, they don't. But they should. Because Lord have mercy, cans of polyurethane have become my mo...

How are you doing? Make it out of that weekend okay? Yeah, same here. Okay. Let's all just take a second, close our eyes, and take 5 dee...

My nephew is here! It's been a week of excitement and much, much joy. He's the first of the grandchildren in our family, so we all c...

Press on though Summer waneth, and falter not nor fear; For God can make the Autumn The glory of the year. -Thomas E. Thoresby, ...

My heart is drumming in my chest so hard it aches, but it's the good kind of ache, like the feeling you get on the first real day of au...

Decorations are slowly emerging from boxes and finding themselves nailed into the shiplap-backed walls and displayed on the heavy oak shelve...

It's still here today, and cloudy- the kind of heavy, translucent-gray weather autumn trots out after pulling on her sweater. Inside, w...

Finally, it's here: the day that promises to blow summer on its way and escort autumn in- beautiful, umber colored, spicy scented autumn...

I got word yesterday that my first niece/nephew could arrive any moment now. My youngest brother and his wife are expecting a little boy... ...

There is nothing in this world like tasting the first spoonful of honey from your very own beehive. Nothing can compare to that heavy, gold...

With the exception of a lunchtime meeting, i t's a quiet, laundry and day-in-the-kitchen sort of day today. The sort of day when you ju...

    If you have a moment, I'd like to introduce you to the old place today. Everyone, meet Hedge House- a rambling, resolute ol...

Please accept my apologies for dropping off the face of the blog planet last week. My best laid plans were shoved aside when we got a call T...

I have been knitting. Knitting, knitting, knitting. Ball after ball of yarn has been unraveled and transformed into all manner of the [great...

I got a series of Facebook messages this weekend from a man old enough to be my father. He has, he told me, lost his faith. His words were ...

If you're a print Bible reading sort of person, you may be aware of the Bible journaling phase that's sweeping the print-Bible-readi...

In the tapestry of childhood,  what stands out is not the splashy, blow-out trips to Disneyland  but the common threads that run throu...

Just in case you wanted to kick off fall with a big... eating fest, now you have help! I'm so excited to announce that my indexed recipe...