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I’m selling tons of books–if you’re interested, let me know (I’ll ship, if you cover postage). Here’s the link to all of the books: http://tiny.cc/0j0mv (Ignore the colored slots–these are books that have been claimed and are colored to help me keep track of who’s getting them and to let you know that they’re taken!) I [...]

I’ve been thinking about tent pegs for a few months now. Years maybe. A while for sure. Probably since I sat in a car with a friend in the spring of 2007. I cried and he challenged, unrelenting with his words: you are tied to an earth that is passing away, untie yourself or you will die [...]

I don’t know when I got it into my head that everything about me must be certain and solid and unchangeable and forever. i don’t know how this lie crept in or when. I’m hardly bothering to take account though. Somewhere along the way I demanded of myself that every word, written and spoken, ought to [...]

Our house is the full gamut, whatever that means. This afternoon one person after another sits on our porch, lays on our couch, sits on her bed, hunches on our front steps, tromps up our back stairs, and finally pulls into our driveway in a little red car with New Hampshire plates. The last one, and [...]

I just got home from an amazing ten days in Texas to a found sweet vintage road bike, a dinner of whole grain rice, our favorite lentil dish, and carrot sticks, and my favorite roommates. And a card from my Ma which had arrived sometime during my time away. The front made me cry and what [...]

We are: Sweeping our house of miscommunication and dustballs. Filling our house with lilacs and Kissing the scarred trees we stole from. Making movies. Riding bikes in circles on The May Road. Moving furniture. Making plans. Getting vision. Falling in love and changing our minds. Everyday. –because we are girls and girls may. Turning our porch light on after nine and Putting bouquets in jars on porch tables. Sitting [...]

This is not much to you, but to me, to me it is much. I’m not sure how to start this. I suppose, in a million ways, I’ve started it a million times over. Small leaves, bitter smatterings, hopeful batterings, and still voices, the beginnings of essays that never were are scattered throughout my draft folder. I’m [...]

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I’m keeping my options open here, but it’s slow going for sure. We’re trudging across the grass, an afternoon walk to break up the four walls of our day. I’m asking her if she feels any different, spiritually, not physically. We’ve been fasting for three and a half weeks now, subsisting on fruits and vegetables. Every [...]

We are learning to touch the fragile things, carefully. I remember being small and learning that touching the petals of a flower made them wilt and drop. And I remember feeling this unfair advantage over things of such beauty–why would God make things so touchable, so off-limits? Now that I am older and somewhat wiser, I [...]

I walked to the coffee shop tonight, trudging through puddles and thoughts the whole way there. I am determined to make something happen in my soul these days. I am determined to find a course and stay on it. I find that the options are huge and full and there was once a time I didn’t [...]

The clouds roll like tumbleweed over the Saint Lawrence, gathering their supply before heading back over the mountains to our right. It is grey everywhere recently, not like Summer or Autumn around here, where everything is lit with color. We grow accustomed to the sameness of Winter and Spring; even the daffodils and small violets are [...]

Before I moved into this house I said it was the first place that felt like my home since the miracle house on 345 6th Street in Tennessee. I lived there with some of the best friends of my life, both roommates and others who filled our open door home. When Christina and I drove in the driveway of [...]

From my sent box: And if contentment is all I need, and is all He’s doing, than I hope He answers my daily prayer soon. I wonder how one can want contentment as badly as I do and still find it ever illusive. As I was driving home tonight I list the things that make me feel [...]

34. Swimming with a favorite person. 35. A gifted bag a dried mangos. 36. Dreaming about exact colors I wanted to paint some furniture, then finding those exact colors already mixed and on the clearance shelf at the hardware store. 37. A perfectly beautiful movie in every way. 38. A clean house. 39. Hearing a chickadee [...]

18. Two new pairs of jeans, my size, my length. Free. 19. A sermon that only capped the mountain of my current weaknesses. It is working its way more deeply in. 20. A car. A 1999 Honda Civic, standard, grey. 21. A friend who drove me to get it, to register it; who listens to me [...]

I drove home in tears, sobs that shook my shoulders and the black abundance of my heart in my mouth. Paul asks, “Who will bring a charge against my Elect?” and it is me. I charged Him with not providing, with not giving, with taking away, with leaving my heart out in the cold and not meeting [...]

I was coming to the coffee shop to blog about hope and faith too. I was coming to get the weight of words off my heart and put some order to them. I was coming to straighten out the floating ideas. In the same way about a month ago I was driving home from Florida and [...]

I practice my Spanish grammar, rolling words over my tongue, la nieve se fundirá, la nieve se funde, la nieve se has fundido: the snow will melt, the snow is melting, the snow has melted because I wish for it to be so. It still sprawls over hills and low slung valleys, but we who are looking [...]

Some of the stickiness that I’m experiencing isn’t all bad, just so you know. Right now I’m so stuck in Jeremiah that my bible falls open there of its own accord. Last night I’m rereading chapter 15. I’m stuck on this recently: If you return, then I will restore you– Before Me you will stand; and if you extract the [...]