Normally I wouldn’t combine posts like this, but I’m planning several days on the topic of infertility starting Monday, and I don’t want to neglect my newfound commitment to searching for the gratitude moments in life. So I’m going to combine that into my Sunday Snippets post today. Welcome to all those coming from Ruth’s…
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Here And Now
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” -Henry David Thoreau There are times in life when every word I read seems to be a message from Heaven hammering home a single point. The last two weeks or so have…
Read MoreConfessions of an Advent Zombie
It seems ironic to me that in this season of Advent—the Advent I’ve spent two years preparing for, the one in which I’m doing four radio interviews, four periodical interviews, countless blog entries, and five book signings to help families move toward a less crazed, more relaxing, and holy Advent season—that in this season, it…
Read MoreConfessions of a High School Misfit
I have a dirty little secret to share. Brace yourself. Are you ready? I was not popular in high school. Yes, it’s shocking, I know. Often when I’m out and about, this little fantasy plays out in my mind. Kind of an embarrassing one to admit, for someone who likes to think of herself as…
Read MoreLittle Graces
It’s been a weekend (and a week) of little graces, none of which lend themselves to lengthy prose, so I’ll just list them here today. …a 4-year-old friend, whose display of bicycle prowess led Alex to ask us if he could drop the training wheels… …and ask Daddy to let go …a Friday night date…
Read MoreFair Bounty
“It’s not fair!” It’s Alex’s new favorite phrase. It’s not fair that he can’t have a new toy every time we go to Target. It’s not fair that he can’t have a bedtime book when he’s piddled away the hour before 8p.m. doing nothing except singing absently, staring off into space. It’s not fair that…
Read MoreThe Weekend In Gratitude
You know how you take the weekends and you cram them full of stuff, expecting to accomplish a ton, only to end the weekend in frustration because virtually nothing got done? This should have been one of those weekends…but it wasn’t. There was Beauty and the Beast on our friends’ front lawn, with popcorn and a…
Read MoreFall Elements
Fall Elements Originally uploaded by One-Speed Photography I didn’t want to come out today. I knew I was not going to find a truly quiet place, and I have so many works in progress that I really begrudged the time. At the very least I ought to be folding clothes so that’s not hanging over…
Read MoreTwenty-one
At 6:01 a.m. on a Sunday morning, I trudge down the sidewalk toward my house. It’s almost silent this morning, the interstate a muted distant hiss, and fog hangs heavy in the lowest reaches of the Bear Creek drainage system. The woods hums with insect song, and after twenty minutes’ run, the cobwebs have finally…
Read MoreThe Endless Project Completed
We began the process sometime in the spring, hopping from one furniture store to the next, discussing paint colors and styles, trying to convert the last room on our main floor from its ugly, monochrome taupe. On Memorial Day, we ordered furniture. Later that week, we settled on colors, moved the junk from around the…
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Kathleen M. Basi 