Room to Grow
Yesterday I knelt on the stamped concrete porch and yanked a ponytail tree out of a red ceramic pot, and as clods of dirt fell from the tangled roots onto my pants, I was hit with a revelation that was so simple
Keeping Marriage From Losing Its Luster
As the jeweler passed my engagement and wedding ring back in a small plastic bag, I could not stop staring at the brilliance of the gems that had been filmed with neglect and time. I had not always taken them for
Sweat-Soaked Surrender
In the hundred days since my daughter’s birth, there have been times when the sleep snatched from her perpetually hungry lips is not enough, making it a struggle to apply the balm of her smiles to my exhaustion and not
To Everything There Is a Season
The five puppies were born on our property five weeks ago to a stray dog with a black muzzle and ears like a dingo. She birthed them in a hollow of mud tucked between a dry creek bed and the