PEARLS ON A STRING

The light is shifting. It's dark still when we get up and the streaks of light wake up the house slowly as the children make their way...

Somewhere in the deep dark days of January's winter weeks, I was doing research for our then up-coming trip to Portugal. I read article...

There are bits of cardboard and glitter scattered across the floor. The lego bin seems to be permanently in use. There's evidence of...

It's hard to believe that we've been out of our home country for a month now, time has a strange way of slowing down but also speeding by...

We arrived in Lisbon, disheveled and hungry, eager to start our five week adventure in Portugal. After making it through customs which...

Easter felt dim this year. As I anticipated Holy Week and thinking about Jesus' life, death and resurrection and wanting to feel...

There are many things that are unexpected to me on this trip, some are about Portugal itself, some are the truths that are revealed once...

We have now been in our home away from home for a few days now. We've settled in to our beds, adjusted routines and rhythms and explored....

It only was supposed to be a short jaunt from one gate to the other. We had three full days planned in London, full of jolly adventures...

I pull up my library's website, quickly log in, and start typing in words to the search engine. Some books come up rapidly but with...