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

Food
April 15, 2021

Chicken Noodle Soup

Melt butter in a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add onion, carrots and celery. Cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 3-4 minutes. Stir in garlic until fragrant,…
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…
Journal
April 15, 2021

On Standing (For a Moment) In Another’s Shoes

We walked through the park side by side. The gravel crunched beneath our feet and spreading live oaks speckled us with comfortable shade. We had walked this path many times,…

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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.”

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