My friendship with winter is growing. That didn't feel true yesterday, or last Wednesday. But I'm getting more frequent glimpses of January's brand of light and warmth, and I'm slightly more willing to accept her limitations. Already this year, I've had several conversations about these darker days: how they affect us, how to live well [...]
One mid-afternoon a few weeks ago, the warmer temperature beckoned me outside. Amelia was about due for a nap, so I secured her snug against my chest, walked down our lane and back, and headed toward the wooden swing in our woods that overlooks the ravine. After rocking for a while, we emerged from the woods into [...]
The Christmas tree still stands in the living room corner because parting with the lights is an annual struggle. But I completed a simple year-end reflection, welcomed the new year by going to bed at 10pm, and have since been thinking about goals and resets and not confusing fresh vision with what I perceive to be the ideal version [...]
It seems like most years, the season of Lent comes and goes pretty uneventfully. The weeks in between Ash Wednesday and Easter pass by normally, with routine work schedules, pleas for warmer weather and maybe revamped mantle decor. In many ways, the same has been true for this year. But, in a way, not. Still [...]
We got a new puppy last week. His name is Dexter, he likes to chew on the leaves of our fig tree and our carpet is a new level of dirty because of him. But he's an excellent snuggler. In part because of him, and in part because of Thomas' new shift at work that has severely [...]
I haven't been here in a little while. I could tell you that school has me zapped. Or that we tend to be busy 4+ evenings a week and I haven't had the time to sit down and write. Those things are true, only to an extent. But there's been an overarching theme of my [...]
Mallory R. Manning 