I attended my first silent retreat with my teacher Carly Forest in May of 2017. It was a huge leap of faith to register because I was...

There are so many who have just joined our little community at this quiet life that I wanted to take a moment to say hello, and welcome....

this quiet life has been fallow for nine months. It's not that there haven't been creative sparks. I've started a half dozen posts in my...

Begin Again. It's the admonishment given dozens of times through silent retreats, meditation workshops, prayer, and the pages of books...

168 Days. It's not exactly a round number. But in our house, it's a number that has us doing a happy dance. Why? 168 is the number of...

I had six people in a row dissolve into tears in my office this afternoon. Already, February is taking names and knocking people on their...

Let's face it: this is not the most inspiring time. The answer to pretty much every question about what you did or how you spent your...

I've been hitting the muffins pretty hard lately. Not because I particularly love them, or because they're super delicious. But for some...

"How is your life apprenticing you?" The invitation to sit with this question came from my teacher, Carly Forest on a recent...

Someone recently paid me a lovely compliment about how I carry and present myself. It was a deeply ironic moment, for at the time the...

Our camellia didn’t bloom last year. I was so sad, because those little red gems appearing at the end of December are such a joy to...

It’s going to get a little heavy this post, so consider yourself forewarned… I’ve never given much thought to breathing. It’s something...

Our life since September 4th has been the exact opposite of what I had in mind when I launched this quiet life. AH and I have had more...

“You’ve kind of left me hanging,” a friend told me in a recent conversation. “It was so huge, this thing that happened to you, and I’m so...

This post has been a hard one to write. It hasn’t flowed like the others have, I imagine because I’m laying a vulnerable, fundamental...