and the winner is . . .

here’s the thing . . . i’m so insanely soft when it comes to hearing your stories. i was going to choose 5 winners randomly, but when i read what you guys wrote . . . your incredibly beautiful comments, your incredibly beautiful journeys, your tender words...

book giveaway!

i’m doing something SUPER FUN today. i’m giving away copies of my book, found art: discovering beauty in foreign places (zonderan 2009)! in 2003 — with the war raging in iraq — i moved to the middle east eight days after my wedding to join my...

10 things i’ve learned from anne lamott

with the recent release of anne lamott’s latest non-fiction, some assembly required, i thought i would honor her with a post about the ways that her writing, her way of being, has influenced so many of us. friend and fellow author, shauna niequist, wrote a...

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...