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Nepal 2019 #1 The Airport
In January I travelled to Nepal with a group of amazing women (and one amazing man) to see the work of Baptist World Aid and their partner NGO, United Mission to Nepal (UMN). We travelled for 8 days through rural Nepal and visited some inspiring women and children who...
Words That Resonate- January 2019
A friend gave me the cutest little book the other day called Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World. It is a lovely little book with lots of words that resonate with my world right now. Here's a few! Kummerspeck (noun, m, German) excessive...
What the heck is the Enneagram?
Sometimes this thing happens in my life where I learn a new word or concept, hear about a new person, or restaurant or book, and then suddenly, I’m seeing that thing everywhere. It happened this way when we bought a Kia Carnival. I’m sure there were approximately zero...
Dumb Phone
I found myself filling every still moment with my phone, bouncing from one app to another and back again. It was next to my face on my bedside table when I woke in the morning and I carried it around the house when I was doing jobs. It seemed like a calming thing to do at the time- to reach for my phone every time I felt anxiety overwhelm me…
Embracing My Limitations
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence.
-Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
When Santa Doesn’t Come to Town…
If I had the chance to go back in time (to 2007) and have a complete parenting do-over, I'd rethink my whole attitude toward Santa Claus. I've been pretty hit-and-miss when it comes to the whole mystical creatures deal. One year at Easter, I chewed up a carrot and...
