We met our garden guide, a woman in blue plaid and a broad straw hat, beneath the evergreen oak in…
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Intentional living
Showing Up as Your Full Self: On Nuance and Living Faithfully
I scribbled down the speaker’s words in my notebook as she spoke them from the stage, “The Christian community, historically,…
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Why Our Words Matter
Three times in the past week various acquaintances have referred to my work as “little”. As in, “I like your…
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How to Make a Difference without a Platform, a Pulpit, or Political Office
Last term, I had my writing class listen to a speech given by Elie Wiesel called The Perils of Indifference, which…
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What Do You Want Me to Know About You?
“What do you want me to know about you?” I slipped this question into a string of far easier ones….
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Loving What Matters
The new year approached through a haze of fairy lights, family noise, and Nyquil. It fought through mounds of wrapping…
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