What is it about a place that gets under your skin? I wanted to mediate on this, so before we started packing all of our crap, I spent some time taking pictures of our home, while it still felt like home. It was really hard letting go of this place. This is the longest time … More Closure

Yesterday I saw through the replay of coverage of the Ladies Figure Skating free skate, and was just so impressed with these ladies. I came away from watching them with the realization that they got where they are through intense athletic training and a whole lot of focus. No mind games, no self-doubt, just focus … More Focus

As I knit on through my commission, nothing has been so encouraging as one little chapter in one of the Yarn Harlot‘s books. In Things I learned from Knitting: …Whether I wanted to or not, the “15th Thing” is, “It Takes a Great Deal of Pressure to Make a Diamond.” In other words, those times … More Blue Callus

My mantra all day has been “We’re leaving for Uganda in 7 days.” Then I pause and wait to see if my eye is twitching. It isn’t, which deeply concerns me. Then I go back to working for five minutes, then think “We’re leaving for Uganda in 7 days.” Why the continued suspicion of twitch? … More Uganda in a week. Uganda in a week.