And so it begins

Last week a letter arrived from Nana Mickey and Papa Louie.  There was a check included with the instructions to take the family out for a “fun” dinner.  Jac and I looked at the calendar, saw our school kick-off looming and began to make plans.  It dawned...

The Fierce Urgency of Now

Did you send your children to bed with stories of freedom marches, Emmett Till and the ‘I Have A Dream’ speech dancing in their heads? Hey!  Us too! Today marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.  It was also a day for a...

Sauteed In Butter

When I went for my first midwife visit with this baby, the nurse was asking all of the usual sorts of questions for health history and such.  Then she threw me a slider. “What do you eat?” I was on my back with a doppler to my exposed belly.  It was a...

Daydreams and Reality

Today was the first day of school for the Rapid City School District. *siiiiigh* It doesn’t mean a diggity-dang thing to us here at Casa de Daniel until I let it. Homeschooling is the best decision we’ve made for our family.  It has been a blessing to us...

The Fourth That Almost Wasn’t

Things felt particularly off at the Lake on the fourth without guests.  The kids kept clarifying, “It’s going to be just us?! I know Papa Bill and Aunt Cristie are coming, but no one else?” We still planned for a celebration because we are free and...