August 23, 2025 This Saturday brings peace, reflection, chores, yard-work, an enneagram lesson, learning more about blog analytics, adding items to my link-tree shop, birdwatching, listening to new music, looking for our future home, college football, reading, solitaire mahjong—my brain is always listing but yet, here I sit in my real bungalow blogging while some of those things happen simultaneously…

August 18, 2025 Last Sunday upon returning from worship, I adorned one of my momma’s dusters, took to the couch, felt sad all day and into the evening, and didn’t change out of my Mama’s pj’s until sometime Monday afternoon. It was a depressed and melancholy start to the week, indeed. Fast forward to yesterday, one week later, things looked…

August 15, 2025 A Sunday afternoon scroll through facebook led me to the RIBBON CUTTING for the completion of our new school building. My administrators, co-workers, and I have taught and lived in separate buildings for three years and were looking forward to the year we’d finally be under one roof again. THIS is that year; the school year we’ve…