A mother reflects on her family's longing for a better home.
On surviving life's seasons of in-between, uncertainty and stagnancy.
On scrubbing consumerism's stain out of our cleaning rituals.
Of sanity and hospitality in a home that's dirty enough to be happy.
Getting involved with adoption and foster care.
Expressing gratitude for parents and teachers who re-imagined "success."
An account of the joys and struggles embedded in 16 years of multi-generational living.
What makes a family a true community?
Reflecting on a day in the life of the *cino community Three Rivers, Michigan.
The significance of stuff in our daily liturgies.
Considering the future form of a hand-me-down dresser.
What we can gain in losing everything.
A cross-cultural friendship sparks questions about what’s necessary.
On the sounds of moving from sleeping to waking.
Wrestling with belonging between the lure of two continents.
Comparing perceptions of a struggling hometown shared with John Updike.
Giving thanks for the opportunity of commuting.
How a simple ritual became a centering necessity across 15 years and places.
Reflecting on glimpses of community during a three-week journey.
A reflection on the concerns of a man and a woman of the Ratwa Bhil tribe in central India.
In praise of an architectural feature and the habits it engenders.
Head to head crypt, comes with a deed & your own lettering.
For sale by owner. Call for appointment.
On leaving home to find home.
Albany Park Theater Project’s I Will Kiss These Walls invents a “theater of hope” in the face of foreclosure.
A retrospective journaling of recent encounters with creatures.
How a forced transition became a welcome change.
16 theses toward understanding sacred space in the context of the biblical narrative.
Food and home, from the southern U.S. to southeast Asia.
At home in Washington, D.C., next door or across town.