Home.​It is a place made sacred by memories, familiarity, love, and dreams.​It is both place and people, a space for work and rest, refuge and reception, the hidden life and hospitality.​A real home is worn but cared for, tidy but often messy, loud at times, and still at others.​You can manufacture a house, but a …

The murder of Charlie Kirk was a shock and a wakeup call to me yesterday. Just in the past few weeks my wife and I have enjoyed listening to some of his talks to young people, so the loss felt more personal and real. Death is a true thief, something that brutally shatters the illusion …

When our family purchased our farm in 2008 it wasn’t a farm. It was undeveloped land with pretty dense forest regrowth from recent timber harvesting. It had a few dirt trails and a shed and city water hookup (which we didn’t plan to use), but the rest was forest. Over the course of the past …