second set of baby steps

This week was our second-to-last ceramics class of the session. My sibs and I have quite a lot of clay left, a few unfired pieces, and hard...

Last summer at a writers' conference I happened to meet two missionary kids, a brother and sister who grew up in Grenada. M., the sis...

These days, as my first post-college cohort of married friends and same-aged cousins is beginning to have their babies and post about it on...

Our beginning-of-the-week conversations for the first few months consisted of, "What did you do this weekend?" "Nothing....

"Are you the Swansons?" - our ceramics teacher as we rolled into class 5 minutes late. (Not bad...) "Are you a band? You so...

the hashtags of my life lately The last few weeks have been a bit insane, with work (where we have a couple of big projects coming to f...

My family had two cats. The first one, Stella, is the softest kitty you ever saw, with the sweetest, tiniest meow you ever heard -- but h...