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Are you a Plotter or a Pantser for the holidays?
It’s that time of year again. You may think I am referring to the four inches of snow outside, the frozen ice buckets in the barn, and the gas fireplace emitting warmth without a sound of a crackle. You have to love Virginia; we go from 58 one week and in the teens the next. →
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Chicken Noodle Soup Does the Trick (and makes you feel loved)
One week ago I was riding high on the wave of creative inspiration until that wave crashed. Shortly after viewing the Solar Eclipse with my husband in our protective eyewear, my body started to feel different. It was the beginning of April. I had not gotten sick one time in this calendar year. The tell →
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Love is in the Air
(4 minute read) Happy Valentine’s Day! I interrupt your day running errands (buying cards, candy or flowers) with a little update. Love is in the air! Not sure how that happened so quickly because I just put away all of our Christmas decorations the other day. Do I even bring out the Valentines wreath and →
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Is It Beginning to Look Like A Lot Like Christmas, Yet?
(10 minute read OR listen to the audio version with bonus material) The last of the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone. The turkey platter and fancy serving dishes are returned to the deep recesses of the china cabinet. Right about now is when I turn my attention towards Christmas. For all of the plan-ahead, shop-all-year-long, and →
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Returning to My Hometown: My 5 Takeaways
(1,943 words or 18 minute read) Recently I had the rare opportunity to revisit a time period in my life that shaped me. I was lucky enough to rewind the clock by several decades, long before I was a mother, a wife, a goat farmer or a Virginian. The past few years I have been →
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce? I Am here For It and Let Me Tell You Why
(5 minute read) Normally I do not poke my nose into the business of celebrity match ups, but with this pairing I feel compelled to speak up. From one Mama Bear to a couple other mama bears, Donna and Andrea, I will get right to the point. Your kids are just right for each other. →
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Before, During and After the Happily Ever After
(20 minute read) ACT 1 The scene opens up next to a barn. A woman is crying. Chickens and goats at her feet, she sets down the wire basket of eggs. Only three eggs today. Maybe the chickens are also stressed. Their usual offering of eight to ten is less than half, and one egg →
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And they lived happily ever after as Mr and Mrs!
“The honeymoon is over.” This is the phrase typically used to describe when schedules return to normal. The luminous luster of wedding celebrating is reduced to a soft glow. All of the months of planning and anticipation are replaced by reflecting and rejoicing. “It was amazing!” Coincidentally this was the little catch phrase my son →
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Who is in your Framily?
(6 minute read) I was a freshman in college when I first met my framily. At the time, I had no idea how much these people would mean to me in my life. During the early months of dating the tall boy with freckles who was two years older than me, I heard about the →
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From Acorn to Sapling
10 minute read) I sat in my seat at the Schar Center on the campus of Elon University in North Carolina and wept as 2023 graduate Candace Rhodes sang these lyrics from the beautiful song by Andra Day: “You’re broken down and tired Of living life on a merry go round And you can’t fight →
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