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Kids, Living
July 18, 2019
6 Minute Read

There is Nothing Like Growing Up On the Farm

I pulled down the lane. Off in the distance driving in the field was my husband. It was just another spring day planting until after dark. Another…

Kids, Living
July 10, 2019
6 Minute Read

Thanks For the Memories, Coach Hart

Recently, my mom shared some sad news: my seventh-grade basketball coach passed away in late March. It was one of those moments that transported me…

Kids, Motherhood, Teen
July 9, 2019
4 Minute Read

Why I Talk With My Teens About My Wild Past

I was 14 when I first snuck into my parent’s liquor cabinet and poured some sort of brown alcohol into a hastily washed Aquanet bottle. I took…

Journal, Kids, Motherhood
September 9, 2018
6 Minute Read

Dear Kids, If I Go Before You Grow

“What if I die before they grow?” This question has haunted me every day since I became a mother at 18. Although I didn’t know what I…

Beauty, Journal
March 16, 2018
5 Minute Read

The World Will Challenge Your Beauty; This Is How You Overcome It

I want my daughter to be beautiful, like me. There, I said it. I want my daughter to be beautiful, like me. There, I said it twice. It took a long…

Journal, Living
March 3, 2018
4 Minute Read

She Lived to Be 105—and This Mantra Got Her Through

Technically, she was my great aunt, but we called her Aunt Marjorie. For most of my childhood, it was Aunt Marjorie and Aunt Mildred, a dynamic duo.…

Grief, Kids
February 25, 2018
5 Minute Read

Discovering the Beauty in Brokenness

I was making dinner one night and my three-year-old daughter was prancing around the kitchen dancing to her own little toddler tune. I saw her…

Journal
February 20, 2018
5 Minute Read

The Gifts Life Gives You in Your 40s

I’ve been in my 40s for a few years now, long enough to reflect on all the gifts life gives in this new decade which used to sound so old. Now that…

Inspiration, Motherhood
December 29, 2017
5 Minute Read

Part of the Time, Life’s Mighty Good

The day my grandmother died, I missed the phone call to tell her goodbye. I’ve often wondered how I would have handled the weight of that moment.…

Faith, Journal, Living
December 24, 2017
5 Minute Read

I Didn’t Buy a Single Thing For Myself For an Entire Year . . . and This is What I Learned

Not one sock, shoe, sweater, shirt, shampoo, nail polish, tube of lipstick, stick of gum . . . nothing! Not. One. Thing. Three hundred sixty-five…

life lessons

There is Nothing Like Growing Up On the Farm

Thanks For the Memories, Coach Hart

Why I Talk With My Teens About My Wild Past

Dear Kids, If I Go Before You Grow

The World Will Challenge Your Beauty; This Is How You Overcome It

She Lived to Be 105—and This Mantra Got Her Through

Discovering the Beauty in Brokenness

The Gifts Life Gives You in Your 40s

Part of the Time, Life’s Mighty Good

I Didn’t Buy a Single Thing For Myself For an Entire Year . . . and This is What I Learned

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