It’s Day Three after Lane got back home from his deployment, early morning, he’s in the middle of remembering where things were and how things belong as he looks around the countertop for the creamer and only finds milk. “Milk? You just put milk in your coffee now?” “Yeah, babe.” And then, … [Read more...] about Let’s go: The Courage to Keep Going When Life Is Hard
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Light of the World, an Advent Devotional Series for Christmas 2018
Eight o'clock in the evening last night and I'm out on my front porch, dark outside already, slippers on, precariously balancing myself on a rickety thrift store chair that serves no real purpose and which I mostly own just because it makes me happy. Except for last night, as I stand on it to string … [Read more...] about Light of the World, an Advent Devotional Series for Christmas 2018
When a Shift in Thinking Changes Everything
I realized something the other day, and don’t mind me being overly-dramatic, but it’s kind of changed everything. We ran in a race on Saturday. A 5k, with our family, for heroes and surrounded by heroes and because of heroes who sacrificed actually everything both as long ago as September 11th and … [Read more...] about When a Shift in Thinking Changes Everything
The Ordinary Nature of Moving Forward
Saturday morning rhythms and we are in the middle of simplifying and downsizing when I come across a sweatshirt, circa 1991. “LANE. This was my favorite sweatshirt when I was eight. Honest to goodness, I wore it every single day of the third grade.” It occurs to me how many years it has been … [Read more...] about The Ordinary Nature of Moving Forward
In Which We’re All Feeling a Little Overwhelmed
The dinnertime rush is going on- people are hungry and wanted dinner five minutes ago, and I am cutting carrots and meat while unpacking half-eaten lunches and setting aside food to put right back into that lunchbox for tomorrow. Also, I am unloading the dishwasher. That feels important. Lane walks … [Read more...] about In Which We’re All Feeling a Little Overwhelmed
All Is Well, After All: On Advent, Hope, and the World On Fire
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...] about All Is Well, After All: On Advent, Hope, and the World On Fire