Happy Anniversary Habibi (my dear one)
It’s our 23rd anniversary today and we both almost forgot!
Garden “Speak”
If you’re anything like me, I sometimes am at a loss for ideas as to what to fix for a meal. It’s the end of the week before the grocery store run, and my mind is a blank!
What Does Grace Look Like?
Grace is hard to define! Recently, I was a recipient of a difficult phone conversation. The person on the other end had no idea how my heart clinched with each word-grenade tossed my way. In the after-math, as I was gazing out my kitchen window, I recalled a podcast...
Fruit Slush
August in Texas is the hottest month of the year. Yesterday, it was 107 in my backyard! The kids either have already started back to school or will so this week and will night a refreshing snack when they tumble out of the school bus, hot, sweaty, and exhausted.
She Touched Me
Have you ever had that dream where consuming panic and fear so grip you that you yell out while asleep?
Frog Fruit, a Lawn Substitute
We’ve successfully gotten rid of our St. Augustine front lawn over the last three years and replaced it with native perennial flowers, shrubs, ground covers and herbs.
Going on Vacation
In July, everyone seems to be going on vacations at once.
Rum Cake
I love baking cakes, especially bundt cakes!
Drought of the Soul
You might have noticed that I haven’t written in a while. My soul has been passing through a season of drought.
Succession Gardening
A gardening question I’m asked frequently is, “how do you have things always growing season after season?”