written November 2022 Have you ever quit doing something that was really good for you? Maybe you used to exercise every morning, but at some point you had a busy…
Category: <span>Things That Matter</span>
All over my social media feeds, I see people rushing toward fall. They’re buying fall decor—pumpkins and fall leaves and all things orange and brown. They’re posting shopping hauls with…
So many of the songs we hear around Christmas time are cheery. From the secular “Holly Jolly Christmas” to the classic “Joy to the World”, most of the carols are…
Content warning: this post talks about pregnancy loss. I’m reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time. I somehow managed to major in English literature without encountering spoilers…
Six months ago, we went to church, in person, for the first time since the pandemic began. For me it had been fifteen months—fifteen months since I sat in a…
When I tell people I majored in English, they generally cringe. Very few people, it seems, enjoyed their high school English class. They feel they were forced to read books…
I’ve always known I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. I can think of no better career than to be the one to shape the earliest experiences of my children’s…
No Victorian-era homemaking book would be complete without a chapter on ventilation. The Victorians often attributed poor health to “bad air.” Florence Nightingale, acknowledged by many as the founder of…
So we want our homes to be peaceful, to feel like safe havens from the outside world. Where do we begin? My impulse is usually to run straight for the…
On the first day of lockdown, I tidied my closet. It’s so much less stressful to wear clothes that make you feel good when you can actually find the clothes…