Everybody is lying. Everybody feels it, and everybody agrees. We don’t know what to believe. Six years ago this December, our family grew...

I was seven verses into a Psalm before I remembered. It was Election Day. Somehow I’d managed to brew a pot of coffee, and take a longish...

I am in my final weeks of being fifty-two—for the second straight year. LOL. But no kidding. A whole year I’d been aging myself until...

“My friends say there will be a civil war after the election.” My youngest son, visiting from college, looks up from his fish taco to...

I’ve been starting my days outside, on the townhouse patio, a concrete slab tucked under the deck. It’s actually lovely. A backyard pond,...

We forgot to sing the song at Maisy’s birthday party last weekend. I realized later, when I heard it on my car radio this week. Daddy was...

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven… Hasn’t this prayer become our heart’s cry in all this world’s mess?...

A couple of years ago I read an article in Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Journal. The edition was themed around spring cleaning and the piece I...

We’ve been having some interesting conversations lately—my husband and I. Not, as far as I can tell, related to quarantine. (Oh, there...

I now understand why the law could never save us. I was convinced before, but now I’ve got proof. Evidence in the form of yesterday’s...

Honestly. I’ve wondered a hundred times if it was selfish of us. If it was terrible timing. Selling their childhood home right out from...

Going on four weeks ago I ended up in the Cambridge ER with a broken wrist. Over the course of the next 2 1/2 weeks I was back in that...

My in-laws are saints. If you could see their garage you’d know what I mean. Well, actually, if you saw their garage you’d wonder what...

I used to do a lot of journaling. Handwritten reflections in neat little notebooks, stacked in rows on a library shelf. But not so much...

I’ve been wearing this necklace, a birthday gift from Luke and Ali. My son told me how at first he’d resisted. Mom’s not really into...

My mom tap-danced for us this Christmas. It was the sweetest surprise. And totally unexpected. We wondered what was up. Gifts being...

Five years ago Kyle and I spent our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary in Chicago. We chose our destination because it was the location of...

There were twenty-four of us, minus Maisy, who was taking a nap. Pop and Grammy, Aunts and Uncles, a host of cousins and significant...

Several things have happened lately that at first blush sound mostly like bad news, but when added up, I think might be headed toward a...

“You are not one flesh with him.” These words, clear as a bell, rang in my morning thoughts. And I knew. Exactly. What this was about. A...