Recently, Jesse and I joined the First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, a church I’ve written about here, and here, and a few weeks ago, one of the pastors asked if I’d be willing to write a devotion for a summer series. I wrote a little devotion after reading Psalm 148. I don’t know if this is a story with… View Post

The girls made a summer 2017 list and it’s hanging in our dining room. Harper wants to read 100 books this summer, and also meet a fairy. I’m doing my best to make it happen, starting with searching for all the fairy doors in Ann Arbor. We found this one yesterday in the downtown library. The fairies built a house… View Post

Dear YIES Students, Putting stories away is a mess. First, you have to make sure they’re in the system. If they’re not, there’s cataloguing, there’s labeling, and then the final step, you shelve them. Making sure stories find their proper homes is a long process. I’ve done this work before. I lived next door to a library growing up, and… View Post

I was in an elementary school today with a classroom the teachers turned into a “Reading Oasis.” There was a kiddie pool filled with books, and lawn chairs spread around it. Another corner was set up like a front porch; rockers and fake grass, and books in wooden crates for sitting a spell. There were bean bags and strung lights… View Post

I’m not sure what’s growing is in fact a hydrangea bush. It could be that this plant that was dying last fall is in fact something different. The four homes that surround us all have ladies with green thumbs in them, and they have the same flowers in front of their homes, and they tell us they’re hydrangeas. However, a… View Post