HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF INTO A MORNING PERSON
I don’t know that I will ever completely be a morning person. At heart, I’m a Night Owl, but the older I get, the more I value good sleep and productive days. The days of teenage schedules and sleeping until the late afternoon are gone. Long gone, my friend. So now, I try to get […]
FRONT PORCH: BEFORE AND AFTER
Kyle and I finally finished our front porch. I can’t tell you how relieved we both are to have that checked off of our enormous home to-do list, but also how freaking excited I am with how it turned out. A lot of the things we used on it were things that his parents left […]
AMISH FRIENDSHIP BREAD
Sometime earlier in the year, I decided I wanted to get a starter for Amish Friendship Bread and write about it. But then school started and I became The Grad Student Zombie, and there was just no time or energy for such things. Or anything for that matter. Then, magically, at the end of the semester, […]
HOUSEPLANTS
When I lived at home, I remember my mom used to bring freshly cut flowers inside during the spring and summer, and then dry them so she could keep them in an arrangement year-round. I don’t ever remember her having a bunch of house plants that she had to water or keep alive—I imagine dealing with […]
THE STORIES I WANT TO TELL
I’ve always been a writer in my heart, even before I knew what stories I wanted to tell. When I was younger, I kept little notebooks with me at all times, to write lists or song lyrics or just doodle during class. My friends in high school were fascinated by them. They weren’t really journals, […]
