Homebound: From Mersea to Maplehurst, With Love (March 21)
Elizabeth and I are homebound. She, a writer of poetry and prose, is bound to Mersea, a 1904 white Victorian nestled in the historic district of a South Carolina shrimping village. I am bound to Maplehurst, a red-brick farmhouse built by Pennsylvania Quakers in 1880. We are both writers, wives, and mothers, but nearly twenty years and hundreds...
These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Reading Gardening Books in a Blizzard)
The view from my window is more January than March, thanks to a late-season blizzard. The worst of the storm hit north and west of us, but we still have more snow, and colder temperatures, than we've seen all winter. Yet more snow is driving hard past my window, but the wind is scouring our driveway clean. I am glad since Tuesday's heavy, wet...
Homebound: From Mersea to Maplehurst, With Love (March 6)
Elizabeth and I are homebound. She, a writer of poetry and prose, is bound to Mersea, a 1904 white Victorian nestled in the historic district of a South Carolina shrimping village. I am bound to Maplehurst, a red-brick farmhouse built by Pennsylvania Quakers in 1880. We are both writers, wives, and mothers, but nearly twenty years and hundreds...
Homebound: From Mersea to Maplehurst, With Love (March 1)
Elizabeth and I are homebound. She, a writer of poetry and prose, is bound to Mersea, a 1904 white Victorian nestled in the historic district of a South Carolina shrimping village. I am bound to Maplehurst, a red-brick farmhouse built by Pennsylvania Quakers in 1880. We are both writers, wives, and mothers, but nearly twenty years and hundreds...
Grace, a Year Later (A Guest Post)
I still remember when I discovered Hilary Yancey's writing online. She writes the kind of sweet-sharp prose that I love. Hers is the beautifully precise storytelling that hurts a little to read but always in the best possible way. I remember thinking, "I hope she writes a book one day." I am so pleased to share the following guest post from...
These Farmhouse Bookshelves (Book Birthday Edition)
(the following post contains affiliate links) Today, this little book of mine turns one. Alas, I did not bake a cake, but I might have to do something about that later today. For those of you who haven't yet picked up a copy of Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons, it's a love letter to an old farmhouse called Maplehurst and an...
