https://designformankind.com/ Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:59:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 233949922 https://designformankind.com/2026/03/currently-21/ https://designformankind.com/2026/03/currently-21/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:12:03 +0000 https://designformankind.com/?p=45971 We sing Happy Birthday to the dog. I tease my daughter’s hair for an 80’s dance, teach her the fine art of a French cuff. I catch myself humming Conjunction Junction while folding the whites. We bake Homer Price cookies, double the batch. Our youngest exchanges her first baby tooth for a rubber ball. I send]]> https://designformankind.com/2026/03/currently-21/feed/ 5 45971 https://designformankind.com/2025/12/we-heard-the-bells/ https://designformankind.com/2025/12/we-heard-the-bells/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:03:36 +0000 https://designformankind.com/?p=45948 Our first big snow arrived over the weekend, all gusts and billows, and our dear town was nearly plummeted in the best of ways. The neighborhood children scattered into yards front and back, wrapped in pom pom hats and last season’s too-small snow pants. Red-cheeked and breathless, they set out producing all manner of festive]]> https://designformankind.com/2025/12/we-heard-the-bells/feed/ 14 45948 https://designformankind.com/2025/11/currently-20/ https://designformankind.com/2025/11/currently-20/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:22:52 +0000 https://designformankind.com/?p=45933 I stock the pantry with beans, set bowlfuls aside for creative bounty. We dip maples and oaks and sycamores into a melted-down pool of last winter’s candles, string a garland for the mantel. I launder the flannel sheets, ready the spiced cider pouches. We intend to write down the first frost on our calendar, but]]> https://designformankind.com/2025/11/currently-20/feed/ 60 45933 https://designformankind.com/2025/09/currently-19/ https://designformankind.com/2025/09/currently-19/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2025 03:46:23 +0000 https://designformankind.com/?p=45915 Our first night in the cabin, dehydrated and weary, we line up our mattresses on the unfinished floor. Our eyelids are heavy, but we steal a few pre-bedtime minutes for shadow puppets on the wall. We are here, we whisper. Finally here. We wake up to deer. Eat our weight in granola and swim to]]> https://designformankind.com/2025/09/currently-19/feed/ 12 45915 https://designformankind.com/2025/05/currently-18/ https://designformankind.com/2025/05/currently-18/#comments Sun, 01 Jun 2025 01:54:08 +0000 https://designformankind.com/?p=45894 We finish The Hobbit. We bring home a farm mutt called Louie, supply dozens of lone socks for his milk teeth. I drive Ken to the airport at 6am, an errand that feels more familiar than either of us want it to. The kids and I attend six weeks’ worth of expected celebrations solo –]]> https://designformankind.com/2025/05/currently-18/feed/ 24 45894 https://designformankind.com/2025/04/currently-17/ https://designformankind.com/2025/04/currently-17/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2025 01:34:52 +0000 https://designformankind.com/?p=45884 I order tomato seeds from Italy. I write a poem to my daughter’s friend. I meander through downtown gardens with my husband and youngest, popping in for a London Fog from a boutique hotel a few blocks away. While waiting for the barista, I people-watch, pretending I am just another tourist in a lobby full]]> https://designformankind.com/2025/04/currently-17/feed/ 21 45884 https://designformankind.com/2025/02/a-lasting-truce/ Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:24:56 +0000 https://designformankind.com/?p=45874 A poem for the woman in the co-op fumbling for an avocado, and for the right words. Stage 4, she says into the phone.   “Now is the time to know That all that you do is sacred. Now, why not consider A lasting truce with yourself and God. Now is the time to understand]]> 45874 https://designformankind.com/2024/12/a-goal-for-2025-or-forever/ https://designformankind.com/2024/12/a-goal-for-2025-or-forever/#comments Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:57:32 +0000 https://designformankind.com/?p=45841 In our home, December offers a great pause. Few responsibilities are doled out, save for the finding of a missing puzzle piece, candying the pecans, raveling the yarn ball back into its basket. We read poetry and scripture daily, adding in a beloved picture book from years passed. We work with our hands, topping peg]]> https://designformankind.com/2024/12/a-goal-for-2025-or-forever/feed/ 2 45841 https://designformankind.com/2024/12/read-this-before-buying/ https://designformankind.com/2024/12/read-this-before-buying/#comments Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:51:01 +0000 http://designformankind.com/?p=44958 Tis the season. Last weekend, the kids and I teetered up and down the attic stairs in search of salt dough stars and knitted stockings. Up and down, up and down, many times over, on the hunt for that one box with the Russian tea dolls, no not that one, the one with The Christmas]]> https://designformankind.com/2024/12/read-this-before-buying/feed/ 12 44958 https://designformankind.com/2024/12/currently-16/ https://designformankind.com/2024/12/currently-16/#comments Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:34:24 +0000 https://designformankind.com/?p=45821 The weather turned quickly after unseasonable warmth, and last year’s burgeoning woodpile beckoned an early burn. So we burned. Morning fires on repeat, three times over, until the wax preserve drips clean from a child’s leaf garland. A wonderful mess, scraping beeswax from brick. We resign to flameless candles until leaves are swapped for winter]]> https://designformankind.com/2024/12/currently-16/feed/ 6 45821