Lauren Flake - Grief & Texas
For a few seconds, my dead grandmother was right there next to me shopping for plants. I was walking through the garden center of H-E-B Plus on a particularly muggy August afternoon. I was leisurely picking out plants and loading them onto my cart, despite the heat. My dead grandmother was right there next to […]
When I was a teenager, I loved rearranging the furniture in my room. I rarely asked for help and would muster all of the strength in my tiny, adolescent body to push my loaded bookcase across that hardwood floor. Occasionally, I would end up hurting myself and wishing that I had asked my parents or my […]
I’m excited to share a simple but very cute Peter Rabbit craft today for Emma Owl’s Read it Make It Book Week. We are a bit Beatrix Potter-obsessed at our house. I grew up on the Tales of Peter Rabbit and His Friends, and now my daughters are fans of that naughty bunny, too. I […]
I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I already have my Christmas cards ready to send out, Christmas music playing on Pandora and most of my online gift shopping done. (Hey, once Halloween is over, it’s game on, although we don’t decorate until after Thanksgiving.) I took a look at my own wishlist and decided to put together my […]