“When creating a space, you must consider the relationships among all the elements in the room.” This is from The Home Design Handbook written by Carley Roney and the editors of TheNest.com. For example, if you tell your husband on a warm spring day, while the two of you are walking along the Potomac River in Georgetown that someday you believe… View Post

Last week I spent most of my time in historical Charleston, specifically, walking up and down King Street. There’s a great bar called Gentry where Jesse and I ran into from out of a thunderstorm and laughed with the bartenders and the other patrons at the timing of the Heavens opening up. There’s a coffeeshop called Revelator. I’m not sure… View Post

In January, when I started to look for jobs, I asked Jesse if I had to explain what happened in the fall. He said, “Do it when you can make it into a story.” What’s redemptive about Creative Nonfiction is I have a chance to create a story from the truth. I am in a bit of turmoil when I… View Post

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