by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | May 12, 2022 | (in)courage, Faith, Grief
It’s funny the things that can immediately bring tears to your eyes. On an ordinary Tuesday afternoon, I opened my inbox and gasped. Inside, an email invited me to congratulate my grandma on a milestone number of years in her listed profession: pastor’s wife. Just...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Mar 21, 2022 | (in)courage, Even If Not, every story matters, Story
Want to listen to this story? Click here to play wherever you stream podcasts. There’s a game I like to play, and it never fails to catch people by surprise. Here’s how it works: I invite someone to grab coffee and once we’ve found a comfortable seat, our hands...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Feb 21, 2022 | (in)courage, Community, Family, friendship
Shelves and screws and seemingly random pieces of what would eventually become a wooden cabinet covered the living room floor. It was somewhere around step thirty-one that I knew without a doubt: This was a two-person job. Four hands were needed to ensure the boards...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Jan 8, 2022 | (in)courage, Devotional, Faith
It was right there, with fluorescent lights shining and half a dozen tops hanging on the rack, that I froze in a department store dressing room. Over the Christmas music playing through the speakers, I could hear two voices in the room to my left. A niece and an aunt?...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Nov 22, 2021 | (in)courage, Devotional, Faith, Thanksgiving
I grew up with palm trees overhead and flip-flops on my feet, even on Christmas. After eighteen years of summer year-round, I moved twelve hours north. Fall doesn’t arrive here until mid-November, but it does arrive, and there’s a 100% chance you’ll find me gushing...
by Kaitlyn Bouchillon | Aug 4, 2021 | (in)courage, Beauty, Faith, My Health Story
I sit quietly in the chair as hair falls to the ground. She works quickly and with each snip of the scissors, another question comes my way: Remind me what you do for work? Are you dating anyone? Did you want layers today? I stare at my reflection in the mirror as I...