I wipe the blood off my piano keys. 🎹

Okay, some of you know that we’ve been hanging out with friends and family, and this week we’ve been entertaining my parents, some cousins and some in-laws and friends have also been here on the farm. Today I thought I’d share a story from last year when my parents visited: I didn’t always have a […]

What comes in threes?

I hope everyone is having a great week! So…about mine. Actually, let me give you a conversation I heard my girls have at the end of last week. Daughter 1:  It’s like there’s a big wave of death that keeps hitting us over and over. Daughter 2:  More like a swirl of death that is […]

Don’t quit. 🙂

It’s been busy here on the farm since the middle of May. Some fun things and some wins, but a lot of hard things as well. I admit, when I realized I’d put out fifty books (I hadn’t been counting and had no idea) it felt like a huge accomplishment. It also put me in […]

Hard Times

I don’t have a farm story from this week. I do have a story from just about a year ago.  I wanted to talk some about Alex, who was from Chiapas, Mexico, who spent a couple of years working with our family. He was like a brother to our boys (read: they picked on each […]