The Holiday Season’s Hottest Dish: Boundaries
This holiday season as you’re making preparations for family visits, school parties, church events, food drives, travel, cooking, cleaning, shopping,…
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This holiday season as you’re making preparations for family visits, school parties, church events, food drives, travel, cooking, cleaning, shopping,…
Continue ReadingMotherhood begins long before we hold our children in our arms. Some of us have been dreaming of rocking a…
Continue ReadingTrigger warning: This post discusses childhood abuse I was abused as a child by a very unwell and very toxic…
Continue ReadingWorship is one of my favorite parts of a church service. Voices raised in adulation, taking time out of a…
Continue ReadingYou’re like me, I bet. I’ve noticed that women, while as varied and diverse as snowflakes and fingerprints, tend to…
Continue ReadingI am an only child. My parents didn’t plan it this way, but life and biology, as you know, rarely…
Continue ReadingI woke up one day and decided to be happy. I’d been struggling with anxiety and depression for a long…
Continue ReadingIt’s mid-afternoon, the slowest part of the day. I’ve spent the day dealing with meals and schedules, tasks, chores, jobs,…
Continue ReadingI thought about you yesterday, dear friend. I remembered the problem you’d been facing and said a prayer for you.…
Continue ReadingI was a tough kid, matured pretty early. I figured out the truth about Santa on my own at an…
Continue ReadingI was raised, like many of my generation, on a steady diet of romantic comedies and an MTV that actually…
Continue ReadingA few months into virtual pandemic schooling, my 8-year-old daughter snuggled up next to me, “Mom, I’m glad I’m not…
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