Caroline

On living with open hands The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world — free to speak even [...]

I don’t know what you need right now to make it through this next week. Maybe it’s taking an hour and wandering a new trail, a quiet spot where you can see Pikes Peak [...]

This is the time of year the hard work of teaching provides small dividends — students staying after class to talk about college plans, dreams, and ideas. Yesterday provided opportunity for bravery in Creative [...]

Ranger knows — tulips and poetry nourish my soul. I read a poem for Poem in Your Pocket Day and he grinned. Ranger notices lovely variations of colorful streaks on each petal and silently [...]

Being authentic and living fully and genuinely are all vital for my well-being. I feel events and situations deeply and often assign those emotions to my sense of self-acceptance. This is not always the [...]

Alack, alack! A plague has ruined the Montague and Capulet families, sworn enemies at the start — in the end to quarrel no more. My 9th graders are finishing reading Romeo and Juliet and [...]

Spring is tightly wound and about to unfurl. My lilac bush nearly bloomed without my notice. Within one month, spiral petals will spin; bees will hum among brown branches soon thick with broad leaves. [...]

Sometimes on lunchtime walks I just walk and other times I think of all the hours I’ve spent here — the proverbial “here” — a ball field, and memories made, friendships found in camaraderie, [...]

If you have suffered great losses and pain, have you noticed that seeing the world through a lens of grief means you can later observe joy and delight with greater ferocity? I don’t mean [...]

I'm excited to announce a Pre-Order of my new book, Sambal and Spice in Amsterdam. This story will be available for purchase now, and will launch on Tuesday, November 10, 2020. Here's a brief [...]