1. 13 Synonyms for Contentment That Don’t Mean the Same Thing at All

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    February 7, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

    Last week we went to the dictionary – more precisely, to Google’s summary of all things dictionary-ish – to get …
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  2. Searching for Contentment

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    January 31, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

    These days you don’t need a dictionary to get a definition for contentment. You just need a search engine. A …
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  3. Enough Already: Exploring the Art of Contentment

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    January 17, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

    Reading and writing are the only spiritual disciplines I maintain with any consistency. I suppose that for some this is …
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  4. Through the Janus Gate

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    January 10, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

    The Roman god Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions. It is generally thought that January is named for …
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  5. Less is More: The Resolution We Both Can Keep

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    January 3, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

    My roommate and I had a quiet New Year’s Eve. Seriously. We watched a couple of episodes of the Twilight …
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  6. Opening Up for the Holidays

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    December 27, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

    Christmas was cold and dry this year, with icy sidewalks. But the day after we woke to several inches of …
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  7. The 12 Movies of Christmas

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    December 20, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

    This is a busy time of year, and with Krampus coming this past weekend, there wasn’t a whole lot left …
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  8. All Things Krampus

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    December 13, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

    The #FolkloreThursday Twitter feed has been full the last few weeks of all things Krampus. This makes sense, given that …
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  9. Striving to Tithe

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    December 6, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

    I had been a clergy wife for four years, and a mother for three. My son had just celebrated his …
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  10. Is the Book of Job a Folktale?

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    November 29, 2015 by Paula Reed Nancarrow

    Is the Book of Job a folktale? Well, some of it is, yes. At least that is what I discovered …
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