friday 5 at the farm: autumn finally
Hey hey friends, happy Friday! This will be short and sweet. Just checking in with a handful of farm happenings. I hope you’ll leave me a note with a headline or two from your world! ONE: Our tenth annual Talent…
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Carpeing all the diems in semi-rural Oklahoma...xoxo
Hey hey friends, happy Friday! This will be short and sweet. Just checking in with a handful of farm happenings. I hope you’ll leave me a note with a headline or two from your world! ONE: Our tenth annual Talent…

We talk a lot about joy here, ever since Handsome and I both received separate messages, “Count it All Joy” and “Choose Joy” during the same excruciatingly hard week, several years ago. Everything we have learned and put into practice…
Several days ago I had a sudden craving to write a good ol’ fashioned Senses Inventory. I told myself I should go somewhere unique to do it, somewhere new and fresh, where I could collect unusual details of my life,…

This is an expanded version of Dad’s obituary we submitted to the Daily Oklahoman. Here I refer to him freely as both Dad and Joe. Honoring him could and should be a full length novel. But an extra long blog…

The days since last Friday feel, collectively, like months. They also feel like one immense monolith of a single day that afforded no reprieve. They also feel like the Twilight Zone. An alternate reality. I opened my planner for the…