Your opportunity to be a part of the conversation about (not) fitting in.
A list-in-progress of formative collections.
Confronting the inner child as an adult living in mom and dad's home.
A single mother living with her parents puts a few thoughts on the proverbial clothesline for examination.
On taking an unconventional route to becoming a lover of books.
How adults and children can walk together on the journey toward discovering grace and self.
It wouldn't be the first time grace was entered the world as a newborn baby...
A review of the 1947 young adult novel Judy's Journey by Lois Lenski, which chronicles the invisible history of migrant workers.
On surrendering control and remembering how to play in a season of inevitable change.
What bodies -- young or old or vibrant or dying -- can teach us about God and ourselves.
A reflection on adulthood, hard friendships and the nature of commitment.
Nostalgia and regret in remembering the qualities of childhood friendships.
A reading that embraces the images of birth woven throughout the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
How a firstborn daughter arrived just in time for Christmas.
Being born again into a new identity yields more questions than answers, with a need to proceed.
Christmas comes in July for Benita Gonzalez and the on-call chaplain.
How hours of pain and anger broke through to love.
Ways to amuse children indoors, but out of the house.
Is the devil really in the details?
On hearing the alarm clock sound within the ordinary.
On what we stand to gain when we look down, instead of ahead.
No more teachers, no more books, no more...peace and quiet? Regular routines? Freedom?
A mom looks back on her favorite books and ahead to her own daughter's young reading years.
How a young parent learned by example to trust providence.
On embracing the mourning of parents who have lost a child to a miscarriage.
On educating children in the ways of grace.
A father reflects on what it means to let art in.
What my son teaches himself, and how.
Unlearning through improv in order to relearn how to play.
A community responds to the longing of a childless couple.