. . . what still matters



writer, believer, cabin dweller, baker…chronicler of a simpler life on the northwest shore of flathead lake

Hi. Becky Jackson here. Writer, retired English teacher, wife to Rex, mom to three beautiful souls, gramma to nine remarkable grandkids, great gramma to two little chunks of love.

Since retiring, we’ve spent nearly twenty years living in Stonecroft, the historical log cabin on Flathead Lake in northwest Montana. It is everything I remember from my childhood and the fulfillment of a dream that we have been able to share with our children and grandchildren, and the extended family who grew up here. It was a gift, this long window in our lives. We lived in the old cabin as the two generations before us, on its terms. We learned so much about ourselves, about an older way of living, and about what still mattered to us. But twenty years is quite a long time at our ages. We were 57 and 62 when we came.

Rex has been gone a year now. The kids are helping me do what Rex didn’t get to, build a new cabin for us here on the lake. It was a complicated, hard decision taking the old cabin down, but the right one. We’re building for today and for the future. It’s a simple Scandinavian design in honor of the grandparents who first made this place home. It’s still Stonecroft, sitting on the rocky shore of this big, wild lake and property, still a gathering place for family and friends. I’m still writing about cabin life, this journey we are all on . . . and what still matters.