A Little Exercise of Gratitude…
Yeah – I know this is the day for it, but a special kind of gratitude has hit me lately…
Unexpected Joy in the Everyday ~ Binky, Baby, Mom
I’ve decided to push against the algorithm of outrage and negativity with a short vignette of joy I experienced this morning. It ambushed me as I was in my occasional morning office at the local coffee shop. #binkybabymom
Let’s Finish 2020 With a Hug
You can learn a lot by watching friends who’ve been apart finally see each other again…
Christmas Greetings ~ Love & Silence
After a divisive, contentious, excruciating, disappointing, frustrating, scary year, what if a little silence is just the thing to which a loving God is calling us?
Safe Spaces – Safe People
We are all experiencing stress and pain that we would never have imagined a year ago. What if entering into a simple rhythm of intentional grieving could help?
COVID-19, Meet Trisomy-21
Even in the craziness of a pandemic, Julia and our friends with Down syndrome have a lot to teach us.
Christmas Greetings
We all got caught on our back foot with a compressed holiday season. But what is the season trying to tell us (read, me) amid all of the busyness?
Grief + 1 Year: I’m not moving on…
It’s been one year since I said goodbye to my dad. The crush of life wants me to “move on”, but I think I’ve found a more honest way…
#StuffSheTeachesMe ~ Connection Matters Most
For all of the things we work so hard on to teach Julia about how to navigate this life, I’m finding she has a thing or two to teach us.
Is Trump a Racist? Wrong Question.
Can we really look into the heart of a person we don’t know and make a judgment call on their intrinsic character? Maybe there are more productive questions to ask? And who is asking them in the first place?