Do This Before You Go On Vacation

When I was a kid, vacation meant packing up the Barbies in their bathing suits, driving a mile to Grandma Morland’s house, and dipping their plastic feet in her blow up swimming pool. It meant fun dip at the public pool and sprinklers in the backyard. Maybe once...

Food, the Gospel

“What’s becoming clearer and clearer to me is that the most sacred moments, the ones in which I feel God’s presence most profoundly, when I feel the goodness of the world most arrestingly, take place at the table.”  Shauna Niequist, Bread and...

With June As Your Teacher

“Here’s a place that will have its way with me.” Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun The kids are home for summer and we head to the coast to spend a little time letting the sea smooth out the jagged edges that have formed within and around us. We...