This Is What Love Feels Like

December 18, 2015.Reading time 11 minutes.

On Sunday, the Cherubs will have lived with us for six months! Six months is a big deal in the adoption from foster care world, because that’s how long you have to live together before you can finalize the adoption. They’ve been marking off the days toward that date with a mixture of terror (that […]

If you want it, go after it

November 23, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

Yesterday was the 12th anniversary of the first time Steve asked me out. This year is first time since then that I’ve remembered that particular date. I think it popped up because I’ve been thinking about this blog series on adopting from foster care, and what it takes to want and go after big things. […]

Pursuing the whole story

October 5, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

I wrote about losing Princess Peach this weekend. It was excruciating. A friend told me recently that she’s been pondering the word “debridement” (the scouring exfoliation done to patients who’ve been severely burned), and afterwords I realized that this is exactly what it felt like: Taking a rough brush to the places I’d been burned. […]

Praying

October 1, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

The other night a friend & I had a long conversation about prayer, and how weird it is when the challenge of your faith shifts: When it’s less about the fear that you’ll disappoint God, and more fear that God might disappoint you. I’m not in that season right now. But I’ve been there. And […]

Extraordinary Time

March 13, 2015.Reading time 4 minutes.

So…blogging for Lent. That went well, huh? :) I’m not sure what happened. I woke up on day 3 with a clear plan to write here about shopping for a new car and realizing that I am more of a “satisficer” than a “maximizer” when it comes to adding new things to my life. (I […]

What Motivates You: Calling or Ego?

July 29, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

I found this gem of an article in the March 2014 issue of Inc. Magazine. I wish it were an entire book – there’s much to consider here. But narrowing it down to three basic distinctions isn’t a bad place to start. I’m taking some of this verbatim from columnist Shelley Prevost – these are […]

Duck Dynasty

September 20, 2013.Reading time 7 minutes.

Have you guys seen Duck Dynasty? I haven’t, but I’ve heard about the show three different times in the past week. And when there’s overlap between what my Christian women’s retreat friends, my Boston business friends, and Men’s Journal are talking about, something INTERESTING is going on. The funniest thing I saw about the show […]

How I Cope with Chaos (or Boredom)

August 29, 2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

Day-to-day, I’m pretty good at keeping it simple. But every once in a while a wind of change blows through and I’m overcome with the urge to be FANCY. To have new cute outfits every day and switch out purses like there’s paparazzi lurking outside, just waiting to catch me repeating a look. One thing […]

The Reward System

July 29, 2013.Reading time 6 minutes.

I had a TON of dental work done when I was little – something like 13 teeth pulled, braces, surgery. There were metal bands and hooks and elastics and headgear. So much miraculous intervention between the ages of 6-12 to give me a working set of teeth and a viable smile. It’s one of the […]