What Are You Up To?
Family time this Christmas took the shape of phone calls and e-mails. I don’t live near any of my family now, though they are often in my thoughts and prayers. I noticed, during one of these phone calls, a pattern I’d not been fully conscious of before. Photo by Quino...
The Problem with Solutions
I recently read an article from The Minimalists about problems and solutions. The first time I skimmed through it, I thought, “Huh?” and saved it for more concentrated exploration later. It was one of those pieces of inside-out thinking that stuck in my head, like a...
Leave It Better Than You Found It
I read an article about using this holiday season to clean up messes, not just physical messes, but relationship messes. Photo by Jenelle Ball on Unsplash This struck me because one of the things my mother taught me, both by example and frequent repetition, was to...