My mom texted a picture to all seven of us kids at the end of August after Nathan, my youngest brother and twenty years my junior, left for his freshman year of college. “In the first week of empty nesting we found an empty nest!” she wrote.
A couple of months after the pandemic started, I drove a couple of miles down Fruitvale Avenue, determined to purchase
“What language would you speak if you could speak any language?” someone asked as we reviewed the liturgical calendar during
I’ve been thinking a lot over the past few weeks about how my family might engage the traditional Lenten practices.
“Moving into a new year doesn’t mean starting over, it means starting again, armed with wisdom we’ve gathered along the
When the pandemic struck, I–like so many other parents of young children–suddenly found myself unresourced and unsupported in the total
A friend from seminary preached at church this week and talked about the passive aggression behind the phrase, ‘bless your heart.’ Most
Oh, I had so many good intentions of staying organized, on task and enriched this summer. Didn’t you? And are
I was obsessed with the Virgin Mary as a child. This was an odd fascination for a little girl who
Do you ever find it hard to live presently in one season, while also planning for another?