Are You Avoiding Something? Five Tips for Doing the Hard Thing from a Team of Experts I Know
Kids can be masters at avoiding things. If you have children, this will not be a surprise to you. Unless you have a rare bird child, whose keeps his plumage preened perfectly, who puts on her bird pants before breakfast without spending fifteen minutes making trick...
The Anonymous Letter Someone Left in My Mailbox and What I Intend to Do about It
A mystery neighbor left us a letter in our mailbox today. When I first opened the box and saw it there, a piece of notebook paper scribbled in pen, folded on top of our mail, I thought, Uh oh. A couple of months after we first moved in, one of our neighbors (who has...
God Is a Mother and I Have Proof- What I Saw at White Duck Taco Shop
I saw God yesterday. I was sitting at a picnic table when it happened, eating a tikki masala chicken taco with a bunch of women ministers. We sat there together in the sunshine, and as a random yellow jacket buzzed around and teams of cicadas chirped at each other...
I Did a Thing Today and It Was Hard But I’m Still Alive
So yeah, I did a hard thing today. You might do it all the time and think it’s no big deal, but it sure was big for me. It made me sweat and change my clothes twice and growl at my husband (not an eyes-batting-come- hither growl, mind you, but a...
Taking Baby to College…and the Dark Secret of Parenting- A Look Back
Hey y’all! Within the next two weeks, several people I love will be putting on their big girl panties and big boy briefs, ripping out their own hearts and taking their babies to college. So I thought I’d replay the freak...Get Becky’s New Book
