On Learning

February 29, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

I have a new laptop. It is lovely and wonderful and the keyboard is the happiest thing ever. They keys are like little letter pillows. It makes me WANT to type. It’s good that I love the keyboard, because nothing else on this machine works. I switched to Windows 10 after 9 years of Mac […]

Win a mansion in heaven! (well, maybe…sort of)

February 24, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

This is the post where I make a plea for you to do something huge that will, in all likelihood, ruin your life. But you’ll do in order to rescue others, which means you’ll be guaranteed a blinged-out mansion in heaven! (Okay, I’m not entirely sure about the mansion. It’s just a working theory…) Steve […]

The Week

February 22, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

VACATION IS OVER!!!!! Is it possible to jump for joy and collapse with relief at the same time? That’s me today. Last week was the best of times and the worst of times. For three days we had four kids, which it turns out is five times harder than just having two. So my already […]

Vacation Week

February 17, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

It’s vacation week. Please know that every word of this coming post is a reflection of this single fact. I’m reading a book on motherhood. Always a bad idea for me. I got sucked in because I love the author and she’s both sharp/brilliant AND soft/maternal, and that combination exists out there in the writing […]

Confession, Forgiveness, Friends

February 1, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

A couple of links to what I’ve been up to: I gave a talk at church on Sunday called FRIENDS. Then I blogged over at the Greenhouse Mission blog, admitting that last Friday I stole from one of my kids, almost got caught, and then lied about it. That one’s called CONFESSION. And I’ve been thinking […]