Sharing seven haiku written during the Octave of Easter

As I set our table for dinner, I thought of all the people who were part of our celebration even though they weren’t physically with us.

If you like limericks, this post is for you.

This will be our pet birds’ first Easter with us.

We don’t need to begin the holiest week of the year at our best. It comes either way. And maybe we’re prepared to receive the risen Jesus in a way we can’t quite see.

~1~ Can you go to your parents’ house and come home empty-handed? Me neither. I came home with a bag of my father’s homemade cookies, a copy of the newspaper with our wedding announcement in it, a few wedding photos I had forgotten about, and printouts of our online guestbook. I don’t even recall having […]

How we share information matters. That’s why people put so much care into marriage proposals and pregnancy announcements.

Our two baby finches celebrated their half-birthdays this week.

I met the anniversary of the last day of in-person school with eyes wide open—bracing myself for that weight. But I’m realizing that missing out on experiences for the second time might be harder.

Pi Day is March 14, and the only question is how much pie—and which flavors—are we going to bake and eat this weekend.