“I was thinking of about you driving to Detroit this morning.” This is from the piano teacher. She always chats with me for a few minutes before and after the lessons. Before class today, she noticed I didn’t have my usual stack of papers to grade, and instead was holding a copy of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild. I picked it up at… View Post

The girls take piano lessons across the street from a house Jesse and I considered putting a bid on. We called it, “the beach house,” because it reminded us of the type of houses we’ve seen in OBX. We liked the house a lot, and if we hadn’t seen the home we are living in now, we probably would’ve put… View Post

To get to Anderson University from Ann Arbor, you have to drive through Defiance County. You’ll pass about ten signs for different towns in Defiance, and I wonder what it would be like to say you grew up in this place. “I am from Defiance,” I said in the car because it was just me and I wanted to hear… View Post

You want to know about this beautiful new website, but I want to tell you about the Reading Journals Becky and I made over the summer. They’re for you! Not kids. (Although, kids? Are you reading this? We have Reading Journals for you, too. Click on my “Products” tab and have a look.) Between you and me, I think these… View Post

Okay so you’re writing schedule is all off. It’s summer and things just aren’t as efficient in the summer. Or maybe you’ve moved and it’s hard to lay down words because you have no sense of place right now. You have to use what you got even if it isn’t the real thing, or it doesn’t feel like the real… View Post