Cozy Finds From Our Home to Yours ⟶
I have a deeply confusing love/hate relationship with my cottage. I love this old place: the tongue-and-groove woodwork, the creaky floors, the lake views. But no matter how much progress we make here, I am prone to seasons of discontent. For me, discontent tends to creep up when I’m discouraged about our lack of pace…
This morning, my husband and I wrapped up our 13-year-old labrador retriever in a cozy blanket, loaded her into the truck for one final truck ride to the vet’s office, and gently stroked her head as she took her final breaths. In the past 48 hours, it had become painfully obvious that our Maggie Mae…
As an English literature teacher, I get the opportunity to indulge in all sorts of incredible books. I’ve always been a voracious reader. I emotionally connect with books and words in a way that other forms of media simply can’t touch. I decided that I’m going to take time on the blog in this upcoming…
In the morning, my son and I try to spot Dwight and Dorothy, a pair of donkeys that live in a field near my parents’ house. In fact, we have no idea if their names are actually Dwight and Dorothy. These are just names we gave to the duo one day this past winter when…
A few weeks back, I started getting notifications on Facebook about The Peach Truck Tour rolling through town. If you’re as unfamiliar as I was with The Peach Truck, it tours around the Southeast selling fresh Georgia peaches in 25-pound boxes. I had never handled that volume of fruit before, but I had been dying…
When you were growing up, did you ever want a new name? I spent my childhood listening others butcher the pronunciation of and/or the spelling of my name. I’d be lying if I didn’t admit there were times that I had wished that I had some shorter, simpler name. While I grew to really embrace…