When I was in high school, our music teacher (who was also our church choir director) took a group of us to hear an orchestra play at the...

Today, our grand girl turned one. That's three hundred sixty five days of smiles and discoveries and magical moments. All around. Out...

There's enough gratitude here for two days worth - maybe even two years worth! It was one year ago today that we finally arrived back in...

Many years ago, pre-seminary, (*does math in her head*) okay, 24 years ago, to be exact, I applied for a job at our local hospital as a...

While today is apparently National Gardening Day, yesterday my Beloved and I ventured down to the Olympia Farmer's Market, where we...

Five years ago today, Compass Broadview, a community of permanent, supportive, affordable housing opened on land that had once been the...

Re-entry after a vacation is always....interesting. I'm so lucky to do work that I love, with amazing people, in a place that is filled...

Today I learned that yesterday's eclipse passed over Uvalde, Texas, site of the mass shooting of 19 fourth grade students and two of...

Today, all across North America, people are looking up in awe and wonder at four minutes of darkness in the middle of the day. Birds and...

Last year at this time, my Beloved and I were driving across the country, returning to our beloved PNW and a life in closer proximity to...

Yesterday I reminded us/myself that it is our responsibility as citizens to be engaged in our civic life, even when it is difficult. I...

This morning, while vacationing with family, I groaned out loud a bit while looking at my phone. When asked what was wrong, I simply...

I recently mentioned this story in a Lenten reflection, but it's been on my mind lately. When I was in third grade, our teacher, Mrs....

Anne Lamott is known to say that everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. For many of us we've been...

I can't recall exactly when I started this Eastertide practice of gratitude journaling in a public space. I know it was at least...

The Feast of the Annunciation, 2024 Monday in Holy Week It’s a strange and wondrous thing that the Feast of the Annunciation falls during...

For Christians, we ask that this week bear the weight of telling the story of salvation. Exactly how we are 'saved' by the death and...

Tomorrow is the Equinox and spring arrives and we exhale a little more readily because with it comes the promise of new-ness. New life...

This morning I walked through our yard in the first hours of light - noticing the flowers that were newly bloomed and the buds that...

I was thinking recently about things that last, as compared to the things that don't. This began to percolate when I read this paragraph...