“Thanksgiving is really over,” my friend Patti wrote yesterday. “All that’s left are yams.” I know what she means. In…
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hearth & home
So much of our lives are spent tending, cleaning, cooking, nurturing. Finding the sacred in the everyday turns out to be a path not only to mindfulness, but to contentment as well. Here are some favorite recipes, a few homemaking ah-has, and reflections on the quiet pleasures of ordinary days. Read more about what Hearth & Home means to me, or browse the archive below.
A time for silence (and a tea recipe)
Before my son Henry flew back to Minnesota last week, I took him out shopping for vitamins. Last winter, temperatures…
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Adulthood for Amateurs
Five years ago today, my husband and I signed the papers on the property that we now call home. I…
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Bookstores and hydrangeas
It seemed fitting that my first reading for The Gift of an Ordinary Day take place in our old hometown…
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