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?
Meanwhile, Progress.
You are about to witness in this short missive the boundless joy coupled with the urge to punch yourself in the head that a parent of a kid with special needs experiences from time to time.