People have been asking if I’ll miss anything about Brooklyn. The answer, of course, is yes. I’ll miss the friends we’ve made here, the church community we were a part of, walking just about everywhere, taking the subway and getting in and out of Manhattan so quickly, running around Prospect Park, having John get home […]

This post is a few weeks late, but I still think it’s important enough to share, so here goes!   *     *     *   Last weekend, we celebrated John’s birthday. We also painted three rooms in the house that, come August, will be our home.   I cook a kind of feast for John’s birthday […]

Blogging has gotten spotty around here because I find I can only barely form a coherent thought substantial enough to write a single sentence. Between moving, caring for kiddos, work, my other blog, revising my novel, and passing a bug around our family (is “ironic” the right word for getting a 103-degree fever during a […]