• Breakfast

    Breakfast

    Wordless Wednesday…

  • Christmas Wrapped in Strange Sunny Paper

    Christmas Wrapped in Strange Sunny Paper

    Thanksgiving week, we moved from NY to TX. With the family traveling down to spend the holidays, I had to make some-things appear normal amidst my inner upset and chaos.

  • To Those With Snow This Morning…

    To Those With Snow This Morning…

    I can relate to being snow-trapped in the house (received a whopping 7’ of snow a few years back)…

  • 10 at the End – December

    10 at the End – December

    One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life. Krista Ritchie Here we are on December 31st, and I’m trying hard to take a moment. To be present at…

  • Welcome Christmas Week

    Welcome Christmas Week

    Happy Monday!🎄 I’m happy that most have a short or zero-days work week as we gather to celebrate the birth of Christ or complete Hanukkah tonight. Becoming settled in a new home and unfamiliar territory is a long distance run, not a sprint. Everything is taking longer than expected and…

  • Travel Tales and Blogging Break

    Travel Tales and Blogging Break

    Less than two weeks ago, we made the trek from New York to Texas and it was a white-knuckle experience for me. I didn’t encounter anything unique from what you likely have: endless construction, maniacs who shouldn’t have car keys, massive semi trucks, torrential rain. I hate all of it…

  • December Contrast

    December Contrast

    Wordless Wednesday.

  • 10 at the End – November

    10 at the End – November

    November Gratitude…

  • Thanksgiving Week

    Thanksgiving Week

    Now, our God, we give thanks to you and praise your majestic name! 1 Chronicles 29:13

  • 15 Misses on my 58th

    15 Misses on my 58th

    15 things I miss…

  • A New York State of Mind to Lone Star Living

    A New York State of Mind to Lone Star Living

    Ten years ago, a colleague walked into the faculty room announcing…

  • 10 at the End – October

    10 at the End – October

    October gratitude…