Archive - More Beautiful Than Necessary

Tell me how great your kids/spouse/dog/friends are

A quick word on bragging

Jun 20 •

Update Shmupdate

I can only tell you what's happened so far

Jun 14 •

May 2025

April 2025

Mom guilt, Robin Hood, and reading magazines like a grandma

Part III of a discussion with Aimee Guest on Creativity and Motherhood

Apr 11 •

March 2025

Making plans, praying prayers, and throwing your life up in the air

Or, "I am out with lanterns looking for myself," as Dickinson humorously noted

Mar 14 •

Creativity and Motherhood

A discussion on time, justification, and rejecting "the images the world would put on us", with Aimee Guest

Mar 9 •

February 2025

Stopping by the window

And a change in perspective that comes at the mirror of true words

Feb 1 •

January 2025

Killing the birds

Rocks and rucks and rest

Jan 19 •

December 2024

Sunday Morning, Midlife Edition

One Sunday we were middle aged and tired and boring, and it was the best of times.

Dec 29, 2024 •

A quiet and simple life must also have some challenges

It’s the end of another year and we’re all about to put our dreams and aspirations on some sort of scale, balancing what is reasonable against what we…

Dec 22, 2024 •

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