A big, beautiful spider has set up her home outside my kitchen window. I have grown attached to her presence and greet her each morning, watching her work or sleep while I take my first few sips of coffee. For those who hate spiders, I see you. But she is where she belongs (outside) and […]

Hope sits in my kitchen; a sturdy farm table, confident that even with all her dings, dents and defects, joy might get served for breakfast. Laughable? Yes. Yet when loneliness fills my bowl, when uncertainty cascades into my cobalt blue cup, when life serves dashed dreams on my best dishes, I pull up a chair, […]