The thing about mercy is--I often don't know what it looks like. I know what I think it should be. Certainly not closing on "our...

I'm participating in  Five Minute Friday  again this week. Today's prompt: Lonely. Go! Mothering, it can be lonely work. In th...

Linking up with Lisa-Jo for this week's Five Minute Friday. The prompt: Story . Go! ~*~*~ Most days I live like I'm the autho...

Joining the many writing for Five Minute Friday, linking up at Lisa-Jo's blog . This week's prompt: Comfort. Go. Freshly vacuumed...

Linking up with Lisa-Jo for Five Minute Friday . This week's prompt: Brave. Go. It didn't seem brave at the time. It had been my...

Linking up with Lisa-Jo over at Five Minute Friday. This week's prompt: Jump. Go. it's contagious if you're around someone...

Linking up with Lisa-Jo for this week's Five Minute Friday: Broken. Go. I'd much rather be the one who is broken than the one w...

It's the nature of life, I suppose, when he has a job and a commute and I'm taking care of the home and our wee one and after that t...

Linking up here this week... Home. Hard to believe it's been nearly four years since I crossed the threshold from "spinster...

Linking up with Lisa-Jo at Tales from a Gypsy Mama for this week's Five Minute Friday! Today's prompt: Ordinary. Go. It's s...

Linking up with Lisa-Jo at Tales of a Gypsy Mama for Five Minute Friday. This week's prompt is not a word, but a phrase: What mama did...

Linking up at Tales of a Gypsy Mama for this week's Five Minute Friday! ~*~*~     I can feel it in his gaze, how much he lov...

It's Five Minute Friday over at Tales of a Gypsy Mama , and I'm joining in! ~~~   I don't know what it is about exhaustio...

joining the crowd over at tales of a gypsy mama --it's five minute friday!    i feel like i can get nothing done today. it's one ...

Linking up with Lisa-Jo over at Tales of a Gypsy Mama for this week's Five Minute Friday. The challenge? Write for five minutes using h...

It looks like that random morning when the baby sleeps till 10:30am. It looks like those 15 minutes when she magically entertains herself ...

Look at you, all pretty in pink, fat little sausage toes and dimpled fingers and a gummy grin that splits my heart right open. Look at yo...

It's Five Minute Friday again, folks! ~*~*~ When did this life become a contest? A kind of race against myself? Do more. Faster. B...

I was petrified of committing to Five Minute Friday: Set a timer for five minutes and just write. Use the prompt on Lisa-Jo's blog and...

Here we go again: Five Minute Friday! The challenge: Set the timer for five minutes and go. Unscripted. Unedited. Real. Get your fingers dir...