Life

The Backstory: What’s your earliest memory?

My Backstory series offers stories about my upbringing and background. You can find the whole series under the…
The Backstory: A roof over our heads

My Backstory series offers stories about my upbringing and background. You can find the whole series under the…
Is there an inventor in the house? [A tiny rant about Campbells soup]

A couple weeks ago my husband, who was working on a creativity project for one of…
So, it’s been a while

Moving to WordPress made my blog much easier to maintain than it was on Xanga. But…
In Honor of Sochi: When you say “Russia,” I think “dill”

It’s Olympics time. What does that mean for my household? Well, even if an epic snowstorm…
Link: The Promise You Cant Keep in Marriage | RELEVANT Magazine

The point of marriage isn’t to find our missing half. It’s to help each other become…
In Praise of The Ordinary. Two links.

Two short pieces that sum up an important theme: Christianity isn’t rocket science. It isn’t the…
The Backstory: “God hates divorce” and therefore my dad?

My Backstory series offers stories about my upbringing and background. You can find the whole series under the…
Hold up — BRB

I realize I’ve done the cruelest thing a writer can do — leave her readers hanging…
The Internet is changing how we think and write

Two relatively short pieces that are worth your attention. The Internet is changing how we think,…