Inspire mid-life women, and you inspire the world...
I'm Sheila Atchley: artist-author, wisdom-chaser, fire-kindler to women "in the middle", ordinary mystic, and The Preacher's odd wife. If I encourage the women, I encourage the world.
Reflections on homemaking, womanhood, family, faith, and the quiet beauty of ordinary life โ written from my small rural cottage in Washington State and sometimes from my adopted country of Italy. For those seeking to cultivate a beautiful life!
All of us are believers, doubters, halfway in or outers. I'm interested in what moves us along that line throughout all of life.
Old world style for modern times. Essays, photography, podcasts, recipes & inspiration. All about beauty by hand, ancestral traditions, slowing down, living well, food from scratch, gardening, preserving & other sundry ways to live beautifully.