Obedience school 23 Aug 2013 | 03:14 pm

We survived! 20 Aug 2013 | 03:10 pm

I’ve started and stopped writing this post multiple times. There’s just not much time around here for blogging these days. I still want to give a summer recap. Wait until you hear about what I used so...

A valediction forbidding mourning 9 Aug 2013 | 06:04 pm

I fell in love with John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” when I was 15. Obviously, I was a super cool teenager. I’d read the poem over and over and at first, the melancholy would wash ove...

Good eats: What I’ve been feeding the fam lately 7 Aug 2013 | 03:48 am

Whew. Life has been busy. How does any mom find time to blog? I don’t know how I used to do it so regularly. I really don’t. This has been one crazy summer. Summer break? Ha. More like the summer of s...

This is a test. This is only a test. 24 Jul 2013 | 11:40 pm

Yesterday I attempted to update some plugins for my blog. If you don’t know what plugins are, what it means for a feed to be invalid, or what htaccess is, you’re lucky. Well, it seems a bad plugin mes...

Scale Sickness 23 Jul 2013 | 11:15 pm

As my regular readers know, I’ve gotten back into running after a long hiatus. It’s been about year now since I’ve been running regularly again, and it feels great. I feel strong, and I see a marked i...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder 13 Jul 2013 | 03:04 pm

I was recently invited to partake in a discussion about body image with HuffPost Live. Unfortunately, I lost my Internet connection not once but twice, and I may have disturbed at least one slumbering...

About that cliff hanger 10 Jul 2013 | 03:28 pm

Okay. So I never should have pulled the old cliff hanger trick in my last post. Honestly, I meant to follow up on that post long before now, but two trips in less than three weeks as well as a broken ...

30 Days to a Healthier You! 1 Jul 2013 | 03:55 pm

It’s July 1st, and there’s no better time than now to take charge of your health. Lord knows you try—a fridge full of lean meats and Greek yogurt, and those regular walks count toward something. But s...

Bits & Pieces 26 Jun 2013 | 11:40 pm

I have nothing more to offer you than a hodgepodge post. This past weekend my mom and my two oldest girls took off for Peoria, Illinois for one of my speaking engagements. It was a fun and faith-fille...