Summer in the Desert Southwest is a time for early-morning starts, late-night energy, and all-day courage to endure the harsh and domineering heat of the season. The train of momentum we rode in spring with hope on the rails and agreeable hours has stalled. Summer sits there exacting more from us ...
Wind Song and Renewal: Spring in the Desert Southwest
Spring in the Desert Southwest is a time for gusty winds and surprising green patience. The land lays expectant and so do we. After enduring months of winter's dormancy and the same trials and hardships in each gray-infused day, we're eager for kinder, warmer, more colorful days and another ...
When Expectations Rule Your Heart: Christian Wife 101
Expectations are stern taskmasters, aren’t they? Demanding we dream big if we want to be happy and then dragging us down when things don't work out. In marriage, expectations require special days and special gifts and ramped-up hopes of spending romantic time with your husband, but 93.7% of the ...
Wisdom for the Planner-Loving Woman
I’m a planner. A woman who simply loves to schedule things. A woman who needs to know ahead of time what she’s doing on any given day and with confidence jots down the best way to go about it. I love the usefulness of planning ahead and the control I feel when I fill in the monthly squares and ...
What a Stroll Down Comparison’s Back Road Can Do for a Murmuring Wife
I used to have a thing for baseboards. You know, that strip of beveled wood tacked along the bottom edge of the wall. It meant that not only had the walls been insulated, drywalled, and painted, but that the floor had been finished too—whether carpet, linoleum, or tile. My desert cabin ...