Sep 2, 2016 | Personal Blog
You know that big thing you’ve been wanting to do? The thing that’s a little out of your comfort zone? The one that would be hard and even a little bit scary? The one you keep putting off, telling yourself maybe later because I sure as heck don’t...
Aug 30, 2016 | Personal Blog
Y’all, I’m falling in love all over again. We have a new crop of first graders on the Children’s Hall, and already they’re teaching me things I didn’t know. Like Reason #37,219 Why Kids Are the Best. What is reason #37,219? you ask? I...
Aug 23, 2016 | Personal Blog
© 2010 jeffreyw, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio She posted it on Facebook last week, and I couldn’t get the question out of my head. “Do you know that God tastes like brownies dropped off by a friend from seminary when one is feeling very sorry for one’s self?” Some...
Aug 19, 2016 | Personal Blog
I don’t care what Queen Elsa says. I’ve had about enough of Let It Go. First we had to let go of summer. Neither Sam nor I was quite ready for that one. Sigh. Did I tell you this is his senior year? SENIOR YEAR! With my older kids, I was Miss...
Aug 12, 2016 | Personal Blog
This may look like a cute baby, but it’s really a baby representing all babies of the world, giving a face palm for the babies and children of the 1970’s and 1980’s for what I found yesterday and can’t get out of my head. Oh y’all....
Aug 10, 2016 | Personal Blog
Some days – or periods of life- are sunny and hilarious and fun to write about, and others are dark and terrifying and so hard and sad that words aren’t enough. In the last few days I’ve been reminded several times that we just don’t have any...