i’m really trying to move away posting recipes on the blog. i promise. this is partly because i think i have something more to say than what i had for dinner last night. it is also partly because, with a nine-month-old in toe sometimes what i had for dinner last night was a string cheese,…
Read MoreYesterday was the International Day Against Violence Against Women, which also marked the beginning of sixteen days devoted to advocacy and education about the atrocities facing women on a global scale. (photo credit: Half the Sky) Stop and think for a second about all the women you know. Your mom. Your daughters. Your sisters. Your…
Read MoreWe learn best through stories. It’s like there is something in our bones, deep down below the marrow that resonates with story. Stats can leave us shell-shocked. Tables can please our eyes. Stories change us at the very core of our being. Rachel Held Evans‘ story, as found both on her blog and in her…
Read More“So you’re writing the curriculum each week as well?” the man asked me in disbelief. “How do you do all that?” “well…i drink a lot of coffee…” Which is true, but the deeper truth is we will always find the time for the things we are most passionate about. I am passionate about people knowing…
Read More
she sat on my couch and talked about faith. quoted chapter and verse of what had to have been half the bible. she told me she wasn’t worried that her medical bills were mounting… that she had been wrongfully let go at work… that the bank was threatening to foreclose on her home… “God told…
Read Morewhy am i doing this? the landscape outside my car window shifts from long forgotten duplexes with their tell-tale green boards and corner stores, to abandoned shopping malls and tiny cookie-cutter box shaped homes, and finally to open fields and cornstalks. it’s a long drive to the suburbs. thirty minutes due north through the concrete…
Read More“you haven’t written anything in months” yes, thank you. as if the nagging in my soul weren’t enough, God has now sent conviction in the form of my upstairs neighbor. “yeah, um, i’ve been really busy…” lame. the truth is, i haven’t written because i don’t know quite what to write about. i’m a mom,…
Read More
birth story. it’s a must. and as i’m yet deciding the further direction of this blog, i figure this is a safe place to start. because, well, i have to tell this story. i was ready for cadence to come as soon as i hit the 37 weeks – full term. there was not…
Read More