First Snow of 2018
Parts of Tennessee got its first snow of the year last week, but we weren’t that lucky. Yesterday, however, we scored a few inches (yay!) and it’s c...
Tag: horses
Signs of Life Day Nine
Today was a good day. My classes went smoothly, I had coffee with a sweet friend, and Chuck and I stole time away for a lunch date. I didn’t even mind tha...
Our New Neighbors
When we bought our house in 2012, the plot of land across the street from our neighborhood was empty. It’s been empty for the last four years. Several mon...
Diary of a Retreatant: The Horses
*This is the fifth post about my experience at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky, on July 22-24. Links to the first four posts are below. Diary of a...
A Sunday afternoon of horseback riding
Last week, on the first full day with my parents, we went horseback riding. As a family we’d only been once beforehand, and Jackson did not ride his own h...
NaNoWriMo 2015 update
Despite all the distractions, like Jackson swallowing the wire from his braces, National Novel Writing Month is going very well. I’m close to 20,000 words...