I feel like God is calling me towards contentment, towards taking care of what I have, towards forgoing excess in favor of serving others' needs. Instead of seeking more stuff, I want more peace. Instead of running towards bigger and better, I long for cozy and just right. Instead of ... READ the POST

One of the aspects of life that I never quite seem to grasp fully is the quickness of time, and that's the case yet again today, as I sit here wondering where the past few months - where the past decade - has gone. At the cusp of the 2010s, I was engaged to be married and enjoying life as a new ... READ the POST

I was getting my hair cut and colored recently (shoutout to Tess, the hair wonder!), and I heard myself say, "I'm not sure I'm hip enough to do that". And then I heard another statement in a similar vein from a different person; this one was, "I definitely don't have the skillset or the reach to ... READ the POST

In my world recently, a few inevitable events, tinged with some element of the miraculous, have occurred. For Lionel, inevitability struck this past week with the loss of his first baby tooth, a feat that, to his seven-year-old impatient self, probably seemed impossible. As ages five and six ... READ the POST

A colleague shared with me recently that she finds it invaluable to have female friends - who are also married, working mamas - to lean on and to normalize the seemingly-trivial-but-not-at-all crises of the elusive work/life balance that we all are so {un}successfully trying to achieve. Reader, ... READ the POST

Of all of the issues that are at stake in the upcoming presidential election, I have determined which two are fundamental for me, upon which I will cast my vote. I, like many Americans, am horrified by what I see and hear and read about migrant children and their families at our nation's borders. I ... READ the POST