Following on from Part 2, which you can read here. I tell these two stories as a sort of compare and contrast exercise - for me. Prayer...

Following on from Part 1, which you can read here. Fast forward almost four years. January 20, 2015. Jed was about to turn 4 and Henry...

Just over 11 years ago, we became parents, when Jed was born into the world. After nearly a year of trying to get pregnant and not...

This past week I was invited by one of my nearest and dearest to what I thought was a conference and turned out to be the most exquisite...

Y’all. This one goes and goes and goes until he just crashes. Well, that and two melatonin gummies. That’s basically how I feel right...

Welp, Covid has come calling at our house. I knew it would come sooner or later, yet I was still shocked when my oldest and youngest...

Last weekend I had the great good pleasure of flying up to Raleigh to surprise my youngest niece for her high school graduation. I wrote...

To the Navy Airman I sat next to on the flight from Pensacola to Charlotte: I do not know your name; forgive me for not asking. But you...

People sing in church all the time, right? It’s not a big deal. But it kinda is for me. Like a lot of people, I love to sing. In the car,...

It was raining hard that morning, and I dreaded having to walk around the building to the rear elevators—the ones that staff were...

The following is from my weekly Sunday morning email to Jake's and my congregation. I usually compose it on Saturday night, because that...

All three boys had a baseball game tonight. Fortunately - since my husband was out of town and wasn’t there to help carpool and schlep -...

I can distinctly remember two episodes of being told, “just wait,” and I very clearly remember thinking in response, “uh, nope.” The...

For the beach: sand, salt, water that laps at my feet, cold, causing my breath to catch; for sandpipers that skitter frenetically, giving...

My husband has been out of town this week. He's coming home tomorrow. He went to visit his parents on the family farm. Two of his uncles...