Five Minute Friday: Open

Five Minute Friday: Open

What a week. What a collection of posts – nearly 200 hundred delicious confections. What a feast. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for reading. Thank you for encouraging so many. For my part, I’m so grateful to each one of you for being part of this space,...
Five Minute Friday: Open

The post you wish more people had read

We did this last year. We took a day. One day. And sat around together, slumped over sofas, feet up on the coffee table, comfortably folded into chairs, across futons, stretched out on the floor and just reveled in each other’s stories. The stories that we...
Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve

Into the dark. Into the night. Into the ache and pain and wave after wave of labor. Into the dirt between handfuls of straw clutched in desperate fists. Into the bite of teeth clenched down and muscles baring down and midwives singing down the fear, the fever in her...