We’re approaching the turning of the calendar year, and as I update the subject line for this email I discover that I only missed sending six times in 2022—despite feeling […]

There’s a blizzard on the way through the midwest and a “cyclone-bomb” temperature drop about to hit. Our refrigerators are full of feasting foods and we’re praying our relatives can […]

We’re halfway through the month. Time for the panic-shopping and last-minute planning. Time to confirm those holiday traditions again—whose version of the pie are we eating this year?—and dust of […]

It’s been raining here for most of the week, pattering down on roofs and heads. No one remembers their umbrella or raincoat in December, it seems. We walk out of […]

It’s December! Can you believe we’ve nearly turned the corner on another year? As we enter this season of waiting in the darkness, may you look forward with joy to […]