Cristina Spencer

This evening seems like just the time for Five Beautiful Things.   Five beautiful things is a practice in which you take notice of five b...

Today I am thinking about wholeness, and I am surprised that what pops up is a memory of the Parthenon from this summer.  Many people have...

Thank you Montserrat Alonso for sharing this image Yesterday I emailed a friend I haven’t seen in a while, to see if she could have...

Sometime this summer my mom and I had a conversation about housework.  She talked about ironing and making her own bed, and about how he...

"Be intimate with your life."  This is instruction I've heard more than once from Karen Maezen Miller.  It's a teaching ...

This is a fun post to put up!  My first article in a national magazine!   Here are some pics of the spread.  You can find Scholastic Paren...

Photo credit Wake Forest University What do you have for lunch the day your hero dies? May 28, 2014 You settle on a hard boil...

Photocredit www.dallasbutterflies.com When I went into Eloise's classroom on Monday I saw something I had never seen before.  The ...

"Maybe children wake to a love affair  every other morning or so; if given the chance, they seem to like the sight and smell a...

Every afternoon last week I looked up around 4PM to see what was going on.  Clouds streaked across the sky racing toward an invisible w...