Hi, my name is Jordan Chetta

I am mama to 4 boys and 2 girls. 

My days overflow with teaching school, music, soccer, dance, cooking (these boys eat so much food!) and just generally mothering—there are always boo-boos to kiss and messes to clean up. Many days it feels like chaos and noise…and then out of the blur comes a moment that says, “Remember this. Pay attention.”

Over the years, my journal has been my therapy. My place to sort out my thoughts and remember what matters. 

“Words crystallize the blur of existence, I heard someone once say. That has been the gift of words to me. Even mundane life takes on meaning when we tell about it.”

Jordan ChettaMother, Writer, Blogger

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Mary Oliver

Recent Writings

Family
April 15, 2021

Mother, Writer, Hero

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the…
Journal
April 15, 2021

Storyteller

Sometimes I ache to write. Thoughts spill over. Words create themselves and I simply…write. I have piles of journals from over the years. As a teenager, I wrote at the desk…
Food
April 15, 2021

Banana Bread

I’ve received a lot of questions about freezing banana bread since I published the recipe, so let me share what works. You can freeze banana bread using these instructions to…

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“Nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely throughout these stories in all their particularity that God make himself known most powerfully and personally.”

Frederick BuechnerTelling Secrets

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