I saw her, but I didn’t really see her. I was loading my groceries into the back of my car, hurrying. It was almost dinner time and I knew...

[This post was featured over at The Joyful Life Magazine on May 15, 2020.] A year ago, my husband and I looked at each other over our Dun...

Photos by Pam Scott, @pjscott6 It’s a Thursday morning in August, 2006. I finish vacuuming, because when you’re selling a house, you vacu...

*This post is featured as a guest post at (in)courage.* I was eleven when we moved from a rural town nestled in Amish Country, Pennsylvan...

Maybe this summer will be different. Maybe this time summer will be filled with long, glorious days of sticky s’mores and campfires and s...

[This post is featured over at Revelation Wellness, as a guest post for their blog, run on May 1, 2019.] There was a pit of unsettledness...

It never fails. When spring offers its long-awaited warmer temps and my boys burst outside, slopping through the softening gunk and mud, ...

Let’s talk about what just happened. Remember December? We taught our kids about Jesus' birth, we did the advent calendar, we bought the ...

I’m nearly damaging my steering wheel with my anxious gripping, waiting for the red light to turn. My middle son is lacing his soccer cle...

Summer closes on my 13th year as a mama. After I see my three boys off to school, and I’m left with my first moments of quiet since May (...