Baking bread is an exercise in faith. It’s mystery and miracle and mess all wrapped in one yeasted loaf. I’m a reluctant bread baker. I come to the process a skeptic. Even as I watch yeast send frothy bubbles to the surface of warm water, I wonder, will this actually work? And as dough works [...]
Image courtesy of Mihai Tamasila If anything characterized the first 6 years of my adult life it was change. Movement was a rhythm of sorts, as sure as the changing seasons. Each fall and summer of my college days, I would pack my little Honda Accord so full of stuff I couldn’t see out the [...]
I’ve been doing all I’m supposed to do to get ready for the holiday season this year. I’ve been buying gifts, cleaning house, stringing lights, listening to Christmas music. But somehow I’ve felt disconnected, removed from the glimmer and cheer of the season. Maybe it’s because I see so many people struggling just to put [...]
I’m going to be honest. It’s been a rough week around these parts. The Mr.’s been working crazy long hours at a stressful job. The living room has been “in process” for over a month, which basically just means the furniture is stacked in the middle of the room, the floor is covered in tape [...]
I was a slow convert to the Hunger Games mania. I haven’t read Harry Potter or Twilight, which either makes me the lamest or smartest person on the planet depending on your perspective. It’s not because I’m a hipster or because I hate wizards. I think I’ve always just been a bit wary of hype. [...]
A very Merry Christmas to you and yours! I pray on this day you will be immersed in the story of a baby boy, born in the humblest of places into a poor family…a baby who was both flesh and blood and the very Son of God. May you be awed. stunned. amazed. by this [...]
