Studies in Hope | A CLOSE READING OF THE EVERYDAY
On Digital Minimalism, Coons, and Lent
'As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.' David Brooks Lent began on Wednesday, and I am in the habit of letting go of something that distracts me from more important things, and...
Beginnings
I keep thinking about writing here, and then for some reason I don't. There is just such an overwhelming amount of words and thoughts out in the world and at our fingertips; I hesitate to add to it just for the sake of saying something or building a writer's platform....
You are Loved
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. Reinhold Niebuhr My recent minimalist kick led me to cleaning out a huge closet that had boxes of mementos and letters. One of them has all of the sympathy cards I received...
In the uncharted territory of the tween years, I feel like I’ve lost my mom mojo [Washington Post]
I've been contemplating what it means to love my little girl in the tween phase versus in the early childhood stage and I wrote a piece about it. “Do you think you’re a good mother?” he asked. It was a year after my husband had suddenly died, and my daughter was...
Brand New
https://soundcloud.com/user153374/brand-new When Audrey was a newborn, I'd wake up each morning, so surprised and excited that I had a baby, and that there she still was, beside me. I wondered, though, if one day, maybe months, or years from then, I would forget that...
The Waiting
" In the waiting, we come to know ourselves more deeply: who we really are, what we hope for, and who we’ll become." Grok Nation published a short piece of mine yesterday. It's about the waiting we do as women in different seasons of our lives, feeling blindsided, and...
Error: No feed found.
Please go to the Instagram Feed settings page to create a feed.