When You Need a Miracle in the Messy Middle
A few years ago, my family spent week after week sitting in waiting rooms and hoping for answers. Just a few hours before the light of Easter morning began to stretch across the sky, my phone lit up with one of the worst text messages of my life. Exactly two years...
Choosing Thanks-Living
In order to truly live, one must do one’s living amongst the breathing. I’m sure it’s been said more beautifully before, but those fourteen words sum up my November. After writing 31 days in a row on how and why every story matters, the well had run...
Women: We Can’t Shrink Back
This is a follow up to the recent post For The Girls With Thighs That Touch. We will not – can not – shrink back or shrink down just to please another. Sun streams in mid-morning and I stumble down the stairs after completing my morning work routine. There...
For the Mothers and the Daughters
I didn’t know I was about to make a new life-friend, one to travel through days and months and times and seasons with. It was a Skype call with a stranger who I felt like I already knew. That very first conversation across invisible airwaves in the sky between...
Hero {Five Minute Friday}
Funny story. Classes started on Monday and the snow came on Tuesday. The south was only supposed to get a “light dusting” and then inches came down. Roads have been shut down, teachers and commuters and children stuck at schools, and everything has been at...
MY BOOK // Even If Not: Living, Loving, and Learning in the in Between
MY FAVORITE WRITING COMMUNITY
