It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My brother and I were born in London…but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country. –Beatrix Potter Helen Beatrix Potter was born July 28, 1866. She…
…we need a clarity that serves people for life, not only for the moment.
Pinch-hitting for your usual Warren & the World editor this week is your Story Warren editor, Kelly! I knew when Carrie needed a sub this week that I could use the phrase “pinch-hit,” and she would know exactly what I meant. We are both baseball-watchers, Carrie and I. The kind of baseball friends who send…
Summer is upon us, and to be honest, this summer hit me like a brick. My youngest graduated from high school, and with her graduation also came the stark reality that summer is really different for us. I’ve been nostalgic listening to the parents of my second-grade students musing over how they are going to…
Someone told our lovely cool spring that summer had arrived and I would like a word with the management. This afternoon I spent an hour outdoors with a small team of people hanging vinyl banners on a construction fence—as one of our artists at church described it, we were “beautifying the construction process.” When you…
For our American and Canadian readers out there, happy respective holidays this week! I hope you enjoyed some fireworks (or avoided them successfully if that was your intent). For everyone else, I hope you had happy days not celebrating the establishment of your nation this week. That right there, my friends, is how you diplomatically…
Anything might happen when we pay attention, experience life alongside our kids, and take time to reflect on all that God has done.
“Home is the kingdom in which we have the daily choice and power to make our tiny domain one of light in darkness.”
We’ve been moving offices at my church job and this week the first set of signs came in. The new shared office spaces are named after streets in our city to tell them apart, and we needed signs for over the doorways. I landed on the idea of formatting them as street signs, and I…
Swingset: Used, Free Choked up with weeds,hard to mow around nowthe grass has grown backwhere feet always wore it thin.Spiderwebs on the swingsthat sway with wind.The even-spaced metal barshold no memory of handsthat gripped them so tightlybefore letting go. Concrete Chunk in my Daughter’s Rock Collection Chip of sidewalkin her hoard of rose quartz,amethyst, obsidian—is…
It’s baseball season, and a couple weeks ago I decided to dive in—watching a team’s games throughout a season is a big commitment. It’s a LONG season and while yes, I can edit manuscripts while the game goes in the background, it’s a conscious decision I have to make if I want to follow my…
One of the things we wanted to do with the Helmer and the Dragon Tomb release was help families with conversations about time. Screens can be a minefield in the way they can use our time—both for kids and adults. Without an intentional approach, screen usage can eat up hours and days. Enter the Time…
