My project this week is to start everyday a little better than the last.
Besides a routine to let love follow me out the door, I’m starting each morning with a simple act of love.
It doesn’t take long – maybe an extra minute or two. Because I’ve noticed how easy it is to get selfish in [...]

I pass a group of short, brown apartment buildings every day on my way to work.
They’re grubby and old along one of the busiest morning streets.
At the beginning of the school year, I noticed a mom and her young daughter waiting for the school bus on a tiny patch of side lawn. They weren’t waiting [...]

“But love is not a victory march, it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.” -Leonard Cohen
The cycle of loving someone can be tricky.
A relationship goes around in circles every year, every day, every hour.
At the top, we’re awed. Everything is wonderful – your lover is close and next to you. He can do no [...]

One Saturday morning, everyone got up on the wrong side of the bed, with one notable exception.
Little Boy was making racket, shattering my peaceful dreams. Little Girl was still asleep, but sure to wake like a grumpy bear at any moment from the noise.
I threw back the feather comforter and marched out to shush Little [...]

10 things daddies should say their little girls until the day they die
You’re so beautiful to me.
I missed you so much.
Do you need my help? Changing the oil? Mailing those manuscripts? Money?
You’re better off… without him, with him, leaving him, marrying him.
I’ll always love you, no matter what.
I can’t imagine life without you.
What’s wrong, baby-girl?
Hi, [...]

Every Friday is Project Day at Peace & Projects.
Love always gets me.
Specifically, writing about love. I get choked up over my own writing all the time. It leaves me on the brink of tears during copy edit and melts my senses without warning.
There’s something about reading love that makes us all a little weak [...]