letter writing Archives

The Gift of a Lifetime

by Robin | Dec 15, 2017 | Advice, Art of Simple, Favorite things, Memoir, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized

We moved to a new house over the summer. Invariably, that meant we not only had to unpack all the items from the small house we had lived in for the past several years; but also furniture and possessions that had been stored since we sold our (much larger) home...

Love, you

by Robin | Jul 16, 2011 | (in)courage, Encouragement, Favorite things, Nostalgia, Personal

Even with the chicken-scratchiest scrawl, there’s something treasurable in a handwritten letter. Isn’t that why we box some away, impossible to relegate them to trash? I still have letters from my Jennie Arnold Edwards Y Camp days, some likely 40 years old. And...

Pretty snails

by Robin | Jan 16, 2011 | Compassion International, Encouragement, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Teens & Tweens

Sometimes my daughter asks loaded questions… “What are you doing tonight…?” There’s a swollen pause at the end of her question, and dancing eyes tell me she Has Ideas and they’re probably better than anything I have in mind....