Happy New Year! I didn’t stay up until midnight on Sunday to see 2018 come in, and I haven’t made any resolutions yet but that doesn’t mean I’m a New Year’s scrooge. Like nearly everyone else, I enjoy January’s tang of new beginnings and untapped potential. That annual burst of new hope and energy is…

December is our family’s busiest month, by far, with the usual end-of-school-year events, three different family Christmas celebrations, family birthdays, and holiday catch-ups with friends squeezed into four dizzying weeks. It’s exhausting but good. New Year’s Eve is my husband’s birthday, and some people will drop around, including good friends we haven’t seen for a while….

No pristine altar cloths here. Only 10 school shirts, mostly white (brown around the second-hand collars won’t come off), which he irons with the care of a sacristan. The Ikea lamp is a little wonky and not the best for reading by but does the job as good as a red one to signal that…

Woah, it’s been six weeks since I’ve posted here. I’m so out of practice that it’s been tempting just to forget about blogging altogether. Except that I need to get back in the writing saddle or else I will need to get serious about knitting or ceramics or cake making or other such thing that I’m…