This was originally published on a website called, “Off the Page,” that was wonderful, but is unfortunately no longer, so I’m archiving it on the blog. Enjoy! What she loved about her desk job in her college dorm was the to-do list that greeted her at the beginning of her shift. Design this month’s bulletin board, write events on the… View Post

A few days a week, I work with first and second graders to help with their reading and writing development, and this month I thought it’d be fun to write and draw a little journal response that integrates what we read, with something to be thankful for. For example, a couple of first grade girls worked through the story, Beautiful Animals,… View Post

My favorite moment with Harper this year happened in the middle of the night in Boone, NC in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She’d been fighting an ear infection, and before she’d gone to bed that night, Jesse was explaining that there would be a meteor shower shortly after midnight – stars burning up faster than you can blink your eyes… View Post

I spoke in the church I attend in all three of last Sunday’s services for Stewardship Sunday. Here’s what I wrote: I’m not a seeker of answers. The same is true for definitions, and facts. When something has been tangibly and palpably proven, I tend to shrug my shoulders and wonder, “What else?” I prefer to experience the mystery of… View Post

How can I confess that I do not know the person I gave birth to; who literally came from within me? The truth is, I am constantly getting to know her – her definition grows, twists, vanishes then comes back, darkens then brightens, it is palpable and then it is barely evident – a whisper in my ear during a… View Post