april in pictures

a few phone photos from instagram that capture some of what april has looked like at our house . . . lanterns are one of my loves. this one is newly acquired and sitting in the middle of our dining room table. beautiful with a candle. the metal and wood are such a...

the pulse of this new day

Reading . . . Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way by Steven Pressfield. My agent read this recently (actually it was probably more like a year ago, but that’s not the point) and tweeted out some completely amazing excerpts and I put it on my...

longing

I have been turning over the topic of longing lately . . . Longing in my journey through these early days, and now early years, of motherhood. Longing as a universal, and yet deeply vulnerable, human posture—no matter the life stage, the specifics. I’ve been going...

Tributaries

As I’ve mentioned, I’m currently working on the proposal for my second book. A book proposal is a detailed account of what you will write, before you’ve actually all the way written it. You take this mass of material you’ve composed over a period of time, say a year...