Field notes for families who want to tend what matters.
Short, honest reflections. Read one when you have a quiet minute.
Start with the Living Tree Guide.
A free workbook, and your first step into PeaceTree. A gentle new way of seeing your family as a living tree. One email and it’s yours, along with our twice-monthly newsletter.
A barn swallow built her nest outside my office window the same summer PeaceTree came together. I almost ignored her.
4 min read · Slowing down
My kid answered every question with “nothing.” It turned out the fix was never a better question.
3.5 min read · Raising children
For years I cooked dinner nobody ate. The night I finally stopped taught me what I was really tired of.
3 min read · Feeling unseen
Grandpa’s corny sayings drive the kids crazy. I have come to think they are a language only our family speaks.
2.5 min read · Leaving a legacy
My husband and I love the same family in two different directions. I keep the stories; he dreams up what is next.
2.5 min read · Raising children
Half of us are lonely, our kids are pulling back, and one quiet study points to exactly what holds a family together.
4.5 min read · Drifting apart
When my daughter was little, she was a light. This is about the night I stopped trying to fix her and finally saw her.
3.5 min read · Raising children
The morning after I told my daughter she could be done, I woke up angry. Part Two is the slower, less tidy work of actually letting go.
4 min read · Raising children
Every family has one summer where everyone is still in it together. You never know which one it is. On staying for the ordinary afternoons.
2 min read · Slowing down
Most of us carry a picture of the family we’ll have someday. A reflection on grieving that picture, and finally seeing the people who actually grew.
4 min read · Drifting apartRead one, and if it stays with you, stay near.
The Living Tree Guide is yours as our gift, along with the occasional PeaceTree newsletter.