lessons from a life half lived
So tell me, what’s stressing you out these days? Your kids’ sports and/or dance schedules? Figuring out what’s for supper tonight? Taking care of your aging parents? No time for self-care? For me, it’s the lengthy and on-going list of things I need to do for my house, family (including pets), and writing. The other day when my personal assistant… Continue Reading…
I love the first day of school. I love the first day of school, be it kindergarten, middle school, or college. Once the kids walk out the door, there is both silence and a guaranteed span of time in which messes will not be made. The clean quiet makes me feel like I belong to me again, instead of to… Continue Reading…
It was in the spring of last year when I found myself breaking up with a friend. I blame Andy Stanley for making me do it. Stanley is a popular pastor out of Atlanta, Georgia, and from time to time, I work his messages into my podcast schedule. Late one May morning in 2016, as I was walking through my… Continue Reading…
It was the rudest of awakenings, hearing the screen of our bedroom window—our third floor bedroom window—being rattled violently in the middle of the night. I leapt out of bed and raced over, fearing one of our cats—Bonnie Agnes or Boots Louise—was nudging the screen loose and might soon be falling three stories. Sure enough, I found a spread-eagled shadow… Continue Reading…