We camp every fall in a valley southeast of where we live. Cold, goldenrod trees against bruised sky. No cell service, continually stoked campfire. Everywhere to explore. Brown trout dancing up river, fat bodies leaping up high to help …
My daughters watch themselves dance in the window reflection. Margot tucks her shirt in, untucks it. Sways her hips from side to side. Tucks it in again. Spins on one foot, her bejeweled plastic heels stomping the turn to …
Who hosts a big ol' summer sale in her shop during the busiest season of the year the week before going out of town? This girl! (pictured with her children) Getting out the door is my …
red, blue, green, yellow and white worn by peace, gentle wind and the bluest sky in the middle of nowhere definitely somewhere four things to hear small feet skipping over earth meadowlarks new grass meeting their new grass neighbors, pushed together by …
Last weekend, we drove a few hours east to join friends on skis. It's always a haul getting on the road for our clan, so I'll withhold the predictable details. The thing is: …
We took off yesterday afternoon for our state capitol. Andy painted a new piece for a group exhibit that opened last night (at the same gallery - Turman Larison Contemporary - where he exhibited in …
Getting outside is my favorite family activity. The kids vibrant creativity and inquisitive, slow approach to every little thing. The uninterrupted time to just be. Together. I find that when we are home, I fill …
I remember the nervousness and confidence I felt when I chose to leave my predictable job with benefits to be home with my kids and grow into work from here. As my midsection enlarged and …
click here to read days 1-4 day 5 in the car early but not as early as planned always the case for me these days glacier national park going to the sun holy strawberry licorice, song singing, gasping at where we live, …
day 1 early rise, pack, clean, work gram and bakka off with kids time feels longer, gentler quiet, like it once was, years 1-11 missed the kids and talked of them often, in that easy, joking, referential way between uninterrupted kisses, …
Last weekend, our family hopped over to Spokane real quick. And by real quick I mean the duration of the trip not the pace at which we traveled. That is more accurately described as trying …
hump day nuggets: little bits of the season in photos and (few) words about the last week Well geez. I cannot believe the outpouring of love this week while my man is all dopey, and quite …
