Last Thursday, I talked to you about all the books I’ve been reading lately. While looking through my stacks, I realized I have two copies of Madeleine L’Engle’s Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art. I’d love to gift my extra copy (brand new, hard back) to one of my readers! To enter the […]
Every Christmas during my childhood, my mom threw a gigantic party for her friends. She wrote out long lists of chores for my sister and me, although mostly I did them by myself because my sister had a gift for disappearing when it came time to do any housework. (Not that I’m bitter.) We cleaned […]
Whenever someone outs themselves to me as a non-reader, I frantically try to find some equilibrium between panic and restraint because what I want to do is make twenty seven book recommendations in crazed, frenetic succession. As a small child, I read for fun. For. Fun. (Nerd alert.) My husband could be found dribbling a […]
Knotted up in my regrets and my losses are the gifts of love and life that I only have because of the regrets and the losses.
The first eight months of our youngest son’s life epitomized uncertainty to me. I rocked a baby against my chest every night, a solid fragile weight pressed next to my heart, not knowing if I would ever be able to call him “son.” It was the riskiest version of love I’d ever known. As every adoptive parent […]
Everything has been a little heavy here lately, so for laughs… Things I have done this week: *Taught fourteen piano lessons (one absence) and held in laughter for two solid hours on my last work day because the excuses for not practicing were so ludicrous. Although, that one about not having a piano anymore was […]
This morning I picked up my Bible and opened it to Psalm 43. In five short verses, I found freedom. I’ve been working through the psalms for about six weeks, and as I study and notate each psalm, memories often push into my thought process with a powerful presence. I’m one for writing in my […]
I want to think that I’m invincible. That I’m not tethered to my body that insists on attacking itself. That I have control over the inner workings of my flesh. I don’t. I’m not. I’ve had a slew of tests and imaging over the past month. I lost count at the lab after they took […]
So, we’ve been working on my EP for like, almost a year. My producer is freelance, and he’s working and taking seminary classes, so he’s pretty tied up these days. Since he’s doing my project nearly for free, I can’t really blame him for working and studying and stuff rather than, you know, making me […]
I always love knowing what people are reading. More often than not, something from their reading list goes directly on to mine. I mostly get this from blogs or Facebook because for some reason I never think to ask people in person what they’re reading. Although to be fair, as I, thinking about why that […]
