It's time for an old-fashioned book round-up, don't you agree? Here's what I currently keep on my nightstand. Recently Read: Scary Close- This feels like a departure from Donald Miller's usual fare, but I enjoyed it. Miller writes about how to achieve healthy relationships, as he recounts the ... Read More about Books on My Nightstand: Edition: A Little Bit of Everything
de(tales): mask
They filled storefront windows down each canal and street. Most were cheap copies, a garish rainbow of colors with fake feathers dyed to match. The outdoor carts strung them along lengths of ribbon, and each time we passed the masks, my daughter snuck behind them and tried one on. “What do you ... Read More about de(tales): mask
A Goldilocks State of Mind: Belonging and the Church
I met a Southern girl who moved to the Northeast a few years ago. My Northeast, the one I love for all its grit and intellect and tell-it-like-it-is and big-city glamour. She hates it here, saying it feels like a different country, one that barely speaks the same language. After her move, she found ... Read More about A Goldilocks State of Mind: Belonging and the Church
An Accomplished Woman
A few days after my birthday, my son asked how I feel about turning forty. I wanted to tell him the truth without it sounding like I'm spiraling into a mid-life crisis, or worse, like I'm whining. Both of which might be true. I told him forty feels good, but when I look back over the past twenty or ... Read More about An Accomplished Woman
Snapshots of a Snow Day
I can hear the two youngest through the ice-cold window panes. They shout something or other into the muffle of snow, their words bright spots of color against a backdrop of quiet white. The oldest is over it--the cold, the white, the endless storm. She comes out of her room for chocolate chip ... Read More about Snapshots of a Snow Day
On Turning Forty and a Few Things I Learned Along the Way
I grew up three turns and around the bend from a tiny, local zoo. I wrote a little about it here. It housed your standard petting zoo critters, along with a strange array of everyday animals like raccoons and owls, in cages close to water buffalo enclosures or your scary "big cat". As a tween, I ... Read More about On Turning Forty and a Few Things I Learned Along the Way
