The Remaking

September 10, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

It’s been an interesting week for me artistically. I’m listening to three songs from Nichole Nordeman’s long-awaited new project, The Unmaking. The basic theme is that sometimes God tears down all the things we build and leaves us standing there, wondering what to do next. Then He rebuilds in ways we never could have imagined. As […]

Thank you U2

September 19, 2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

Have you listened to the new U2 Album yet? It blew me away. I was so inspired… -by the concept (this album is called Songs of Innocence, and will be followed by Songs of Experience. I mean, they might as well be called “Titles I want to steal for future books…”). -the tribute to Joey Ramone […]

Start Somewhere

October 29, 2013.Reading time 6 minutes.

I received a letter the other day. It wasn’t to me individually, although it felt like it was. It was written in a way that was so personal to the senders that I suspect each of us who read it was quite certain it was intended just for us. It was an open letter from […]

Talking About a Revolution

September 16, 2013.Reading time 10 minutes.

I spent the weekend in the Maryland mountains, at a retreat with the women from Revolution Church in Annapolis. I never knew that Maryland had mountains (turns out they’re beautiful) or that a group of women staging a revolution would be so much fun to hang out with. I was the speaker for the retreat, […]

Depression, letting each other down, and waiting out the storm

August 20, 2013.Reading time 6 minutes.

Three summers ago I was so depressed I could barely get out of bed. This wasn’t the wonky chemical kind of depression, but rather the kind that comes when too many things have gone wrong. That it was a “reasonable” sort of depression – an appropriate reaction to circumstances, you might say – didn’t help. […]