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Snow from You're the Snow
Snow I have always loved the snow, the kind of beauty only heaven can bestow, and I loved him first...
On the Poems That Became You’re the Snow
On the Poems That Became You’re the Snow Snow has a way of gathering in the dark while no one...
You’re the Snow
You're the Snow is a collection of poems about a love that arrives the way the first snow does: quietly,...
A Christmas Tree? Who, Me?
On Finding the Christmas Tree in the Most Unlikely Places How the Search Began Every December of my childhood began...
You're My October: A Selection from You're the Snow
You're My Octoberby Rory Noelle This morning autumn draped its first cold shawl;I drew my brown cardigan close against it...
The Bullying We Pretend We Outgrew
On the Bullying We Pretend We Outgrew On a hard and rarely spoken truth, that the cruelty we once left...
The Wounds We Carry Into Love
On the Wounds We Carry Into Love On the tender, rarely spoken truth that the wounds we leave untended do...
Rewiring an Anxiously Attached Heart
On Rewiring an Anxiously Attached Heart An anxious heart loves with its whole self, pouring out tenderness, attention, and devotion...
Tending the Abandonment Wound
On Tending the Abandonment Wound Some wounds announce themselves loudly, with a scar we can point to and a story...
Celebrating Noellie's Eleventh Book!
On Eleven Little Books, and the Gratitude That Holds Them This October, with the light falling low and golden across...
Heaven’s Light, a Poem
Heaven’s Light Written in Notre-Dame Cathedral Paris HEAVEN'S LIGHT I was built the way cathedrals rise, from centuries of grief...
On Entering Notre-Dame: A Season Inside a Story
On Entering Notre-Dame: A Season Inside a Story There are books a writer creates, and then there are the rare...
On Dracula, and the Mercy Hidden in the Dark
On Dracula, and the Mercy Hidden in the Dark When the evenings begin to lengthen and the first cold wind...
On Sanctuary: Writing The Hunchback of Notre-Dame for the Littlest Readers
On Sanctuary: Writing The Hunchback of Notre-Dame for the Littlest Readers Of all the books I have written for Noellie...
On Believing the Best Is Yet to Come
On Believing the Best Is Yet to Come "The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine?" —...
What the Body Remembers
What the Body Remembers There was a season of my life when goodbyes undid me in a way I could...
A New Season in Vero Beach
A Turning of the Page Standing in Vero Beach today, on the beach, I am in awe of how God...
The Guardianship of Wonder
The Guardianship of Wonder There is a war being waged against childhood, quiet and unrelenting, fought not with armies but...
Volunteer in Vero Beach and Fort Pierce
The Noellie Foundation Establishes Volunteer Community in Vero Beach and Fort Pierce Expanding Support for Pediatric Patients and Families Across...
Lion Wears Gold
Introducing Beau Wears Gold There are days for building sandcastles, collecting shells and running toward the sea. And there are...
A Homemade Dinner Party for Sixteen
Noellie's Vero Beach Dinner An Intimate Evening This week and the days leading up were one of my dreams! Somewhere...
Vero Beach Mornings
The Art of a Slow Beach Morning There is an hour before the world remembers itself — before phones stir...
The Odyssey, Wearable
The Odyssey, Wearable Some stories are old enough that they no longer need retelling — only remembering. That was the...
On Becoming Well: Notes from a Slow Summer
On Becoming Well: Notes from a Slow Summer Every summer asks something different of us, and this one asked for...
On Eggs, and the Chickens Who Gave Them
On Eggs, and the Chickens Who Gave Them My family's home in Spain kept chickens the way other homes keep...
Baby's Roman Missal Board Book
Baby's First Missal: A Season of Ordinary Grace A quiet hush settles over a home in Ordinary Time — not...
On Protecting His Fertility
His Fertility There is something nobody tells you. Not when you are young, not when fertility feels like a distant...
The Case For Getting Dressed
The Case For Getting Dressed There is something that happens in the quiet before the day begins — in the...
Declaration of Independence Baby Board Book
The First Patriot Introducing Noellie Little Patriots: Declaration of Independence Long before a child knows what freedom means, they feel...
The Quiet Practices of Fertility
The Quiet Practices of Fertility Long before any of this was called wellness, it was simply how women lived. My...
Traditional Spanish Churros
An Afternoon of Homemade Churros There is a version of this recipe that lives only in memory — my grandmother's...
King Richard’s Winter Soliloquy and a Muse
The Winter Soliloquy "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer." It is one of the most famous...
The Long Road to Ithaca: On Cultivating Peace
The Long Road to Ithaca: On Cultivating Peace In Homer’s The Odyssey, the long journey home is not merely a...
A Summer Spent Slowly, the Way the Nineties Taught Us
A Summer Spent Slowly, the Way the Nineties Taught Us There has been a quiet experiment running underneath this whole...
An Afternoon of Empanadas
An Afternoon of Empanadas As days go on, I am more and more thankful every day for my grandma. This...
A Dream is a Wish: The Anatomy of a Story
A Dream is a Wish When I was little, my family used to call me Sleeping Beauty after Princess Aurora....
I Knew It, I Knew You
Love Has Ways of Bringing Things Back to Life From the very moment it released at midnight, "I Knew It,...