The car wouldn’t start this morning. A simple problem in the scheme of things, a first world problem really, as they say. But nonetheless, it was my engine that chugged, my car that wouldn’t turn over, my schedule that got rearranged that day. And so I sit in the front seat, hoping against ... Read More
When You Feel Divided and Overwhelmed, Look Here
Late afternoon, hungry babies, I stand distracted and twelve different places in a single moment. I’m in the kitchen, meat frying in the skillet, wiping down the counters, thinking about problems and worries and decisions, and spending minutes I don’t have on social media, because that, of ... Read More
This is the kind of love that will heal a broken heart
Were you to ask how I’ve been doing, I’d probably say fine. Because really, we’re fine, it’s been fine. Hasn’t it all been fine? And then it’s entirely obvious we’re not fine at all. I wouldn’t say I’ve been completely aware of all of the things building into this crescendo, because so much of ... Read More
Is what we’ve been given really good enough? Thoughts on a woman’s body
I was riding in the back seat of a friend’s station wagon in the fourth grade the first time I thought that my body wasn’t good enough. We were on our way home from soccer practice, side by side eating oranges and drinking capri suns and I looked down and I noticed that my thighs were wider than ... Read More
Love Is Not Losing Your Mind Over the Not Important Things
We’re sitting at the table in the morning, sun not quite yet up, coffee cups in our hands, waking up slow and gently and together. It’s this togetherness that throws me off, not the waking up early part. Two hundred and thirty days gone and then with the landing of a plane he’s back and the normal ... Read More
For the Brave and Extraordinary Ones We Serve Alongside, A Prayer for this Memorial Day
My doorbell rang the other day, 8:30 am. This is it, I immediately think, This is what I’m wearing when I find out he’s gone. It ended up being a neighborhood kid returning something her mama had borrowed the night before. /// He’s been traveling around the country- not ours, the one ... Read More