• On Hospitality

    On Hospitality

    Since returning from our recent nomadic venturing, I’ve been mulling over the exceptional hospitality that my family was repeatedly shown by those who opened their homes to us. Y’all, I just have the most amazing friends– friends who truly went out of their way to make us feel comfortable and welcome under their roofs. There’s just something sacred about sharing space.…

  • Tree Huggers

    Tree Huggers

    One would assume that, on the tailwind of our recent interstate road-trip, an aimless country drive would be the last way our family would choose to spend our Sunday. They’d be wrong. I blame Montana. And Autumn. And mountains and trees and leaves and clear skies and fresh air. Resistance was futile. In related news, I have…

  • Momentary Nomads

    Momentary Nomads

    Home sweet home… There’s no place like home… Home on the range… Home is where the heart is… Brace yourselves while I wax nostalgic for a spell, I haven’t blogged in over a week.  The kidlets and I just returned home from our nomadic adventure through Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon– which shall henceforth officially be…

  • Old People’s Home

    Old People’s Home

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    Call me an old lady, but I kind of can’t wait to move into a retirement home. I’m serious, I’m baffled as to why there’s a negative stigma about them, why those actually eligible for residence are typically resistant. Consider for one minute: Someone cooks AND cleans for you AND organizes social activities to fill your day! It…

  • Tinkers

    Tinkers

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    I have this Bestie– she was clearly born in the wrong decade. Her innate resourcefulness rivals those hailing from the Depression era. She inspires me. She never throws anything away. I have affectionately dubbed her The Tinker Fairy*, the hammer her signature emoticon. Besides regularly making her own cheese crackers, dish-washer detergent, and soup noodles from scratch,…

  • Kodachrome

    Kodachrome

    Precisely six months ago, after years of dreaming, eighteen months of mind-numbing paperwork, and six months of memorizing his referral picture, our precious Little Man officially became a part of the family. To accompany our six month post placement report, China requires that we submit a handful of photos that provide a glimpse into his new life. Here…

  • Counterfeit Farmgirl

    Counterfeit Farmgirl

    Have you read the charming memoir, Confessions of a Counterfeit Farmgirl? It’s been years, but stuck with me, and I highly recommend it– a humorous Uppity-New-Yorker-abandons-city-life-and-embarks-upon-the-family-farm tale, which accidentally convinces the reader to follow suite though attempting to dissuade in jest. Good stuff. I suppose her title is a fair moniker for myself, these days, as I regularly…

  • Road Trippin’

    Road Trippin’

    It wasn’t until my 21st year that I boarded my first commercial flight; yet, during my childhood, I still managed to traverse all over Oregon, Washington, California, Nevada, Arizona, Canada, and Mexico, by car. At 19 I drove with a gaggle of girlfriends to visit another at her college in Utah. At 20 the same gals…

  • Living Large in a (Relatively) Small Space

    Living Large in a (Relatively) Small Space

    Have y’all caught wind of the Small Living movement that appears to be gaining counter-cultural momentum? I am constantly inspired/challenged by articles such as this one, this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, especially this one, and even this crazy one. I’m borderline obsessed. When my family relocated to Bozeman two years…