I’ll be honest. I’ve been worn down by the past two years of pandemic and a multitude of losses and stresses, personal and shared. I’ve lost hope and had to look hard to find it. My heart has sometimes been heavy with the weight of grief, my eyes quick to brim with tears. So the […]
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We’d driven almost 3,000 miles, from the northern Midwest to the southwestern tip of the U.S. and were making our way home last month before I confessed that I hadn’t yet found the right words to describe the extraordinary landscape we were passing through. Expansive wasn’t big enough. Astonishing wasn’t specific enough. Thrilling didn’t do […]
+ Read MoreI like to celebrate Groundhog Day. Not by visiting Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to watch a bunch of white men in top hats gather around a groundhog known as Phil, but by remembering that regardless of whether Phil spots a shadow or not, the day traditionally marks the halfway point between winter solstice and spring equinox. It […]
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