by admin | Oct 30, 2022 | essays, guest posts
This week, I’m grateful to be sharing on Twyla Franz’s wonderful blog on missional living, The Uncommon Normal. We gathered in the living room of the mountain rental house, nearly 25 of us—parents, adult children, significant others, and fictive kin...
by admin | Apr 20, 2022 | essays
The warm spring day was getting warmer, and our energy for a day at a local amusement park was beginning to wane. Our three boys began to complain they were hungry, so we made our way toward the exit, in search of the promised picnic tables. As we went, I counted, as...
by admin | Oct 9, 2021 | a mom's life, poems, reflections
How is it that I studied my children at every age,drank in their constant remaking,yet missed my own?Meanwhile, I too was being remadewith my own fleeting epochs. Fresh faced, dewy eyed twentiesWriting…directing…starring inthe Movie of My LifeNo hurdle too...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | a mom's life
This article originally appeared in the Fall 2020 issue of MOPS Magazine. Saddled with an English–major mother, my kids couldn’t escape learning the three types of irony at an early age. On family movie nights, it wasn’t unusual to hear a small voice pipe...
by admin | Feb 1, 2021 | a mom's life, marriage, reflections
Milestones matter. As the designated Keeper of the Firsts and the Lasts in my family, I love reflecting on our journey, remembering what God has brought us through. Five years ago, I found a lump in my neck. I found it and promptly forgot about it because I...
by admin | Sep 3, 2020 | a mom's life, education
Dear Fall Self at the start of September, Welcome to the next chapter of your life. Unwritten but much anticipated, this month promises to be full of firsts and good intentions, some of which you will actually carry out. You will mean to spend focused time with your...
by admin | Jul 8, 2020 | guest posts, marriage, reflections
Sometimes you meet someone—even virtually—who feels like a friend from the start. I had the joy of writing a guest post for Betsy Pendergrass of gatheringaround.com. Betsy and her husband, Taylor, have cultivated a beautiful site focused on hospitality and...
by admin | Jun 21, 2020 | reflections
I had the blessing of my father in my life until I was 14, just about to enter 10th grade. That summer he suffered a sudden fatal heart attack. I’ve now lived many more years without than with him, but recently I’ve been writing down memories of life with him. What I...
by admin | Jun 10, 2020 | guest posts, reflections
Recently I had the privilege of writing a short piece for Abigail Rehmert, a writer I met through hope*writers. That post came at a crucial time, when quarantine had been under way for weeks stretching into months, our business had dropped off drastically, and I was...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | poems, reflections
As the daughter of an Asian father and a German–American mother, I can’t pretend to understand what it’s like to be a black adult in the U.S. today, to live with the possibility of being presumed guilty until proven innocent, or to instruct my teenage sons in how to...
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