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...

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...