Christmas marks the beginning of the end. After such a season of anticipation and joy, now it’s time to reflect on the past year while preparing for a new year on its way. Last Christmas, we had just barely met niece Olive, we were waiting to meet nephew Jesse, were on the cusp of letting the world…
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven,” quote George Bernard Shaw. And how true is that? We used to enjoy joking that “if Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy,” but the joke isn’t as funny as Mr. Shaw is true: a happy family is that blessed glimmer of heaven’s glory. And it’s marvelous. We’ve…
It seems only fitting that I am finishing 2014 the same way I started it: reveling in this cutie. Remember when she was just three hours old? I do. Or what about when she was three months old? Oh, the cuteness. And now she is one year old. Just as cute. Infinitely more mobile. Knows how…
Traipsing through the woods, sipping tea in between locations while bouncing on rutted trails in a classic (read: old) pick up truck, throwing leaves, watching the sun sink toward the horizon. Oh yeah, and commemorating this season of love and autumn engagement. Simon & Christine have one of the sweetest, most precious love…
She wanted to climb high, reach higher, find a new path, forge her own way. One handhold at a time, from ledge to ledge, inching her way up the barely scale-able wall of red crusty rock. She tried to do it on her own, she really did. But she couldn’t: she couldn’t do it on…
I am thankful for airplanes. Airplanes that criss-cross the continent and allow all the appendages of my family to convene in on semi-central location. We flew from Atlanta, from North Carolina, and from British Columbia to descend upon Arizona — that’s only about twenty-six hours of flying among the five travelers (round trip) instead of…
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