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Everyday Life: The Dog Days of Three 27 Aug 2013 | 07:17 am
I feel like I'm melting. It's 95 degrees outside, and my baby boy and I are cruising the forest preserve discussing life according to toddlers when he looks up at me, eyes that match the bluest of co...
Bigger Picture Moments: When God Won't Help Us Find Our Toys 22 Aug 2013 | 07:09 am
"I know why some people don't like God, mommy," my six year old says as we discuss life over Legos. "Really? Why?" I ask, baffled at the change in a conversation that began about lunch. "Because som...
Everyday Life: These Things We Carry 19 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
I find it early one morning tucked away in the suitcase he brought on vacation. And it leaves me temporarily stunned, an electric fence to the forehead feeling, of sorts. My father's handwriting ac....
Motherhood: For the Days We Think We Suck 15 Aug 2013 | 06:20 am
And that's a wrap on our first six years. A few days ago we sang happy birthday to our oldest son and welcomed him into year six. This year he graduates from preschooler into child, pilots Kinderg.....
Everyday Life: In the Chasm 11 Aug 2013 | 07:14 am
I wonder if they know. If they know how bruised and battered, scared and tattered I've become during these 30 forever-short years I've called life. I wonder if at almost six and almost four they see...
One Word 365: In Which I Intimately Understand Rejoicing 5 Aug 2013 | 07:15 am
I thought we had turned the corner on that first brilliantly sunny day of the new year. I thought surely God had given me the word rejoice for my yearly word just a day before for wonderfully obviou....
Everyday Life: Because Sometimes You Need to Know You are Strong Again 26 Jul 2013 | 03:53 am
I went anyway. The day before I was supposed to head down to the city for a little pre-Blogher girls' night, my relatively new MacBook faced serious injury to its motherboard. I'll save you the deta...
Bigger Picture Moments: Consider this Strength Shared 22 Jul 2013 | 08:19 pm
"Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you like wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers." Luke 22:31-32 Grief ha....
Bigger Picture Moment: In the Tangles of Fear 16 Jul 2013 | 12:49 am
I didn't want to go to Egypt. I confided in close friends that I feared something big would happen while I was there -- a bomb exploding nearby or even worse atop of us or a massive uprising of voice...
Everyday Life: What I Found in the Hours Between 10 Jul 2013 | 07:54 am
At seven, I learned to pop my hip to the side, making a perfect seat on which my only baby sister would contently sit as I carried her around wherever I could. She was joy wrapped in skin, cheeks chu...
