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  • Choosing My Battles

    Keep Calm and Carry On Motivational poster by the British government 1939 “Keep calm and carry on” is often easier said than done. Whether it’s a verbal confrontation, a personal dilemma, or a reaction to a crisis, it’s easy to let our emotions get the better of us. The desire to strike out at whatever—or…

  • Let August Finish

    The Last days of summer. Photo by my son “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard Suddenly, the calendar has sped forward to the end of August. The hot days at the beginning of the month will soon cool and slide into the evening chill of autumn.…

  • The Pull of Home

    “There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”— Jane Austen Home is my favorite place. I’ve worked to create a space where I genuinely want to be. Because of that, I cannot envision having a job that required me to travel all the time. Given a choice between another hotel room and my…

  • The Portrait We Paint

    Life imitates art far more than art imitates life. Oscar Wilde If you think about it, we are the artists of our own lives, and what we create is uniquely ours. The portrait we paint of ourselves is a composite of nearly every aspect of our lives. We decide, at least to some extent, what…

  • Better Now Than Never

    Our Decluttered Fireplace Mantel We spend the first half of our lives accumulating things and the last half giving them away. Author Unknown Several years ago, when we were moving into a smaller home, we rented a storage unit for all the things we thought we should keep. It seemed like the sensible thing to do.…

  • Not Today

    “What do we say to the god of death? Not today.” Game of Thrones  George R.R. Martin Coming a little late to the party, we recently finished watching all eight seasons of Game of Thrones. As I suspected it might be, the series was extremely violent. I had heard that many viewers were disappointed with the…

  • The Patina of Wear

    “Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” —Francis Bacon The folding bridge table in the photo is over eighty years old, and I have owned it for more than twenty of those years. During that time, it has served…

  • The Bent Gate and the Beautiful Tree

    Stanley Britsh Primary School All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. Julian of Norwich One person will look at this photograph and notice the bent post in the wrought-iron gate. Another will be captivated by the brilliant colors of the tree beyond it. Is it…

  • More Than Shelves

    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”— Cicero I recently came across the French word bibliothèque—library. It made me stop and think. In a home, a library is not simply a collection of shelves filled with books. Shelves are where books are stored. A library is something more. It reflects who you are.…