There's no competing with Amazon. You know that, right? Independent bookstores aren't even in the same realm; we don't ...

{photo by Charlotte Rutherford } The amount of encouragement and strength I've received from complete strangers these past couple...

{photo via Garance Dore } August, you guys. What on earth is happening with the time? Does it have to do with aging? When I'm 5...

{photo by Whitnay Wiles } June is over. How that happened, I'll never really know, but I'm so pleased with last month and th...

There's this scene I remember distinctly from the first few weeks of my marriage.  I was walking around our very tiny apartment, ...

The sincerity and the support this little blog world provides never cease to amaze me, and this past Tuesday was no exception. Words ca...

{screenshot from a video by Kinga Bur za  for Kate Spade} First off, I absolutely loved hearing everybody's responses to yesterda...

{photo by Michael Mitchell } Nothing good I do is me. It's taken me a while to really believe this, to acknowledge that the go...

A couple of weeks ago, my friend Kari began a series on her blog inspired by Barbara Brown Taylor. The series , entitled "How to...

{photo by Justin Chung } Grief and sorrow are hard things, and sometimes, the road mourners travel becomes a very lonely one. Friends...

{photo by Leroy Grannis } I've kind of been loving Abby's blog Little Stories lately, and her recent post, " A Small Sa...

{photo by Arielle Elise } The first time a boy ever called my house, it wasn’t to ask me out or to talk about the comings and goings...

"I think one of the most powerful apologetics in the gospel is when a group of people love one another and live in unity togethe...

{photo by Alec Vanderboom } God is a constant surprise. That’s how I felt when, about a month ago, in the middle of my family’s mo...

{photo by Ikunori Yamamoto } I know everyone says their blog readers are the best, so I hope I don't seem disingenuous when I...

{seaside, september 2011} Currently, I'm... excited about having a day off in the middle of the week. Thursday can't come...

{image from work is not a job } Good morning! I've got lots of photos of a very autumn home to show you, but until I get those...

If you read the same blogs I happen to read, maybe you’ve heard of 31 days , a project started by a group of bloggers in which they w...