love story
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Planting Sunflowers by Moonlight
Here’s the story. Around 9:45 P.M. on Sunday night I had the sudden impulse to plant sunflowers seeds. (We are a couple weeks past when we usually do it!) Ben easily convinced me that it was late and we should just do that the next evening. No argument from me. It WAS rather late to… Continue reading
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Beautiful Things Here Below
It was one of those very ordinary moments that lifts outside of itself and plays like a beautiful scene before your eyes. I’m in the kitchen working on dinner over the stove and my husband is explaining how his grounds work has made him sore. I just laugh out loud because it’s us getting old. I’m… Continue reading
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How Cake Accompanies the Best Love Stories
No one told me how perfect it feels to carry a cake alight with birthday candles to the sound of a family singing Happy Birthday. Or how happy I’d feel shielding the candles and seeing the faces of those I love most dearly through the flickering flame. It’s so familial and so intimate. I always… Continue reading
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Small Talk – a poem on love
Time does fly. Seems wild this photo was taken November 2021 when I was in the 2nd trimester with our daughter and our son was just a year old. Time does fly. Fast and furious and beautiful. While not without grief, time has gone to good places and I love having all the ordinary life… Continue reading
