Dear Allison, A year ago your biggest celebration was a working toilet being installed downstairs in the condo. You even posted about it on Facebook (because, y’know, that makes everything …
This Year, We Dance: How a Fight and a Tatoo Brought Me to the Dance Floor
The valley of depression I am walking through once convinced me I would never get out. Isn’t it funny, though, how the small, inconsequential things sometimes precipitate a tremendous turning …
A Raw Confession: Tending to my Soul
I’m well aware of my strengths. Intelligent. Loyal. Caring. It’s easy for me to be honest and vulnerable. I love to laugh. I can be witty. I’m teaching you the …
A Letter to Reed’s Kindergarten Teacher
I was okay. Really, I was. Until I looked across the table at you and saw tears brimming in your eyes. You’re a mom so you know that more than anything …
An Advent Reflection
All this life has me wearied. All this anger and frustration and yelling and eating that which doesn’t satisfy – it’s left me so over it all. I’m tired of …
Raising Reed
Sitting at the kitchen table of my not-quite-unpacked kitchen, just a couple scant weeks since we’d uprooted our little family and moved 600 miles north, I watched Ben’s expression grow …
How to Ruin a Vacation
That way? No, a little boy sleeping in a hospital bed doesn’t ruin a vacation. Just delays it. But it’s my heart that reduces a gracious gift to an ash-heap …
Going Second
Difficult circumstances can feel isolating. Something bad happens and we feel as if we’re the only one going through it. No one else understands it or us — in fact, …
