• 40. Business Cards and Burp Rags

    Don’t you just love mornings when you wake up inspired? It’s 6:17 a.m. I’ve just set out a surprise cranberry apple muffin with maple drizzle for my hubby’s breakfast. The house is lingering in that last hour of hushed silence before showers begin running, floor boards creak under bare feet, and the baby wakes. Right …

  • 35. The Memory of Color

    Time passes and the complexity, the whole grand existence of people and places and experiences condenses down until you can just make out the threads, veins of color that leap speaking starkly for themselves from the bare rock of life. Time passes; the colors gain strength even as your bones brittle. When you are old …

  • 32. Sensual Saints

    What kind of woman are you becoming? What kind of woman do you long to be? It’s a fair question and one that we should be regularly asking ourselves so that we can steer ourselves in the right direction. I was meditating on this the other day and out of nowhere the phrase “sensual saint” …

  • 31. Broken for You

    Let me ask you a question… when was the last time you were broken for somebody? How long has it been since the pain of another brought you to tears? What is the farthest you’ve pushed yourself for another person? Maybe you’ve only ever tolerated mild discomfort or annoyance in order to help someone else. …