From Scratch: An Interview with Emily on Meal Planning, Gatherings, and Getting Ready for Sukkot
In this episode, I talk with Emily, who cooks everything from scratch and has built her own system for planning meals, from everyday dinners to feeding a crowd at group gatherings. If meal planning has ever felt like the hardest part of your week to get a handle on, this conversation is full of practical, […]
Lamp for My Feet: A 30-Day Verse List on Light
November always catches me off guard. One week I’m still enjoying a little evening sun, and the next I’m turning on the lamps before supper. The days are shorter, the mornings are darker, and everything in the house seems to lean toward candles, quilts, and a warm kitchen. This month felt like the right time […]
Stewardship: Why You Were Created to Be Productive
This episode is a little different, it’s a Bible study I shared with a group of women on stewardship, recorded live. We look at the parable of the talents, at Joseph as an example of faithful stewardship even in difficult circumstances, and at the idea that we were created to be productive, to actually give […]
Starting From Scratch: An Interview with Dedra on Building a Planning Habit as a Beginner
In this episode, I talk with Dedra, who’s new to both planning and to keeping Shabbat and eating biblically clean, a season of learning several new rhythms at once. She shares her honest tips for building a planning habit from the ground up, how she’s learning to track recipes and plan meals, and how she’s […]
A Different Season, the Same Faithfulness: An Interview with Tina on Homestead Life and Planning for Two
In this episode, I talk with Tina, who’s part of an extended family homestead and is now in a season of feeding just herself and her husband, a very different rhythm than planning for a large, growing family. We talk about chickens, building out a personal pantry, planning around feast days, and her habit of […]
From the Pit to the Palace: A 30-Day Study on the Life of Joseph
The feasts are behind us now, and the air is starting to turn — that quiet shift where you find yourself thinking about pantries, wood piles, and what needs to be ready before the cold sets in. It felt like the right month to sit with Joseph. His story isn’t really about dreams or Egypt […]
Real Life, Real Planning: An Interview with Leslie on Managing a Full, Busy Home
In this episode, I sit down with my sister Leslie, a homeschool mom to eight children, including twins, who also helps run a family business, works the farm, and takes part in a homeschool co-op. If that sounds like a full plate, it is, and we talk honestly about the planner and systems that actually […]
Feast of Tabernacles: Finding Joy in Everyday Planning
Sukkot is called the season of our joy, and in this episode, we’re asking what that actually looks like when applied to planning, the everyday tasks of running a home, managing a schedule, and caring for a family. Joy isn’t just for the big moments. It can be found, on purpose, in the ordinary rhythm […]
Yom Kippur: Three Honest Questions to Ask Yourself About Planning
Yom Kippur is a day set apart for honest self-examination, and in this episode, we’re bringing that same posture to how we plan our homes and our time. Real biblical planning isn’t just about better systems, it’s about being willing to look honestly at ourselves and ask where we might actually be the problem. I […]
Sheltered – a verse list for the fall feasts
There’s something about this season that makes me want to slow down and look up. The fall feasts are coming — Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles — and every year they remind me of the same thing: we don’t get through hard or holy seasons by our own strength. We get through them because Yah shelters us. […]