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A Time for Everything

There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to...

To My Kids: Sometimes I Cry

Sometimes, at the end of a particularly trying day with you guys, I cry. I’m overwhelmed with all the feelings, with exhaustion, with knowing...

Angry on My Island

How’s your life been for the past five days? Has it been good? I truly hope so. Let me tell you how mine’s been....

The Hard Thing About Hope

Hope isn’t so easy. In fact, it’s one of the hardest things to wrap yourself around sometimes. There isn’t anything easy about staring straight into...

Things I Love About Newborns

After three years of watching my first and then second newborn grow into rough-and-tumble toddler and preschooler who feed themselves, make big messes, know more...

He Causes Me to Rest

I hurt my back last Monday and I don’t even have a great story to tell about it.  The long and short of it...

So you think boys can dance?

Saturday my 5-year-old daughter celebrated a friend’s birthday at a cooking party. While waiting for the chicken fingers to bake, all of the boys...

Books as Tonic

How do you care for yourself? How do you cope with the messiness, stress, or busyness of life? Do you have regular habits that...

Baltimore and the Pink Chair

When riots broke out in Baltimore, I didn’t know. I wasn’t on my computer that day. I spent the day picking out paint for my...

Runners Aren’t Born, They’re Made

I’ve been running lately.  Not running like Jonah did (or at least I don’t think so).  I’ve been running about three miles at a...
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