Finding balance on the equinox
Eliza Blue looks for balance in her life, reflecting on how the earth achieves it during the autumn equinox.
Living in a hotel
Eliza Blue and her family are still adjusting to their new house after moving closer to town.
Enjoy every exhausting moment of motherhood
Eliza Blue ruminates on the beautiful and brutal time in her life when she was parenting very small children.
Celebrating a decade of ‘Little Pasture on the Prairie’
Eliza Blue has written about 338,000 words over the past 10 years of her column, Little Pasture on the Prairie. She reflects on the decade gone-by.
Enjoy the splendor of autumn
Eliza Blue ponders the splendor of autumn.
The arrival of a favorite ‘gift’
Eliza Blue recalls the morning her daughter was born, considering her to be the best Christmas present her family could ever wish for.
Arctic blast
Eliza Blue and her family are waiting out another cold snap in South Dakota.
Take time to notice the perfection
Eliza Blue realizes that perfection is waiting in the quiet of tall rustling grass, the last morning star, the golden faces of late summer flowers.
The need for move on
Eliza Blue ruminates on what it means to live a life well lived, as her days are marked by both the beginnings and ends of lives.
No coat, no shoes November
Eliza Blue ponders letting go of things you can't control and how to appreciate the inevitable cold of winter.
