Hey you — at full throttle — can you take a minute to breathe? Your once-a-question is moving steadily towards an assumption: will today be like every other day this week? Is it just another one of those days … … when dishes and laundry and...
Both in my back yard — a family in my community — and all across the globe, loss seems to prevail. Sometimes you catch yourself with the deceiving thought: who’s really winning, here? I have a little girl who pads down the stairs after bedtime. She...
About a week ago it started. That feeling. The last time I remember having it this strong I was seventeen. We had been at the beach, then, when it all began to sink in. Back at home in Ohio was a bedroom full of loot — bedding and towels and crates and hangers...
I was introduced, early, to the way we Christians are. And I was a quick study. At seventeen, I was new to a relationship with God and along with this new way came a whole new set of people and conversations and ways of doing life. There were late night talks about...
Our wedding party was chosen, the invitations mailed, and the menu set—after months of planning, it was show time! The “happily ever after” I’d always dreamed of was days away. The only thing in our way? A wedding crasher named “Hurricane Hanna,” scheduled to hit...
She’s been with me 13 years now, a little blue bird who lives on my dresser right beside little bowls of loose buttons and the rose my husband wore on our wedding day. She’s remained through a move and many binges of decluttering. In honor of this new skin on the old...
