13 Feb Snow Day!
I've looked forward to today all week. I love snow! It's beautiful. It makes for great skiing. The kids get to play in it (and so do I--sometimes). AND I have a good excuse to stay home. There's nothing like a good snow day for...
Author: Alison Treat
05 Feb A Day in the Life
This week Tsh Oxenreider of The Art of Simple (formerly Simple Mom) released her latest book, Notes from a Blue Bike. The more I hear about this book, the more excited I am to read it, especially as I have embarked in the past few...
30 Jan So, how’s your book doing? Or, This is NOT a response to Amy Glass.
A couple weeks ago, a rather misguided woman wrote a blogpost that went viral. (Please don't click on that link. It's already had enough hits!) I only (finally) heard about this post last week and I’m already sick of...
03 Dec A Birth Story: Version 3.0
I know these posts are coming sporadically now more than ever before, but that’s just the way it is. I have visions of revamping the blog, posting more regularly and making it work better some day. Next year, maybe....
15 Nov Five Minute Friday: Tree
I haven't done Five Minute Friday in a loooong time! A year, I think. I already had a word in mind to write about. And then I looked at Lisa-Jo's prompt and it was "tree" and that made me think of this post. So I...
20 Sep At long last . . .
We had the baby! Four days after my due date Evangeline Grace finally arrived! I felt like I would be pregnant forever. I started writing a blog post several times in that last week. I wanted to write what I like about being pregnant. I...
25 Jul Of Books and Babies
I’m attending the Montrose Christian Writers’ Conferencethis week, enjoying a refreshing breeze after a week of sweltering humidity. I’ve carried babies for three summers of my life, and this is the hottest I remember. Four years ago, when I...
18 Jul Give it up for author Olivia Stocum!
I have been scarce here on my own blog. I know. And today I'm popping in not to talk about my life, but to shine the spotlight on my friend Olivia Stocum. I met her last year at the Montrose Christian Writers' Conference (which, by...
26 Jun Gone-Away Lake
Part of my story started over thirteen years ago, with a conversation my friends would have referred to as “DTR”—“Define the Relationship”. You know how it goes: girl likes boy, girl thinks boy likes her, but girl isn’t positive...
28 May Mourning and a Happy Birthday
Today is the day my baby was due. The one that surprised us in the fall. And then surprised us again by slipping away from this earthbefore we got to meet her. My belly never grew. I never felt her move. We didn’t give her...