Hello Mama, As we near the close of summer and all the kid activities that fill up this busy season, I am especially humbled by and grateful for my stay-at-home mom friends. A couple of years ago, I went back …
I change. You change. Let’s change together.
Have you ever yelled at a friend? Like actually raised your voice? If not, then you probably don’t want to be my friend. Because in my adult life, I’ve yelled at more friends than I’d like to admit. You see, …
Restless Nights
Everyday worries can keep you awake. Sometimes at night Edith can’t sleep. She goes through the “what-ifs”: What if her son gets sick and she can’t leave work? What if there’s no one she can call to take care of …
Redefining the Friendship Loss
In the middle of a very intense season of my life, my two best friends connected over a shared project and from my perspective, for whatever reason, I wasn’t asked to join in. I was left out. I felt like …
When We Stay, When We Go
In May of 2014, my husband and I made a risky decision. We put our house on the market; we sold more than half of our possessions; we said goodbye to the home we’d built for seven years; and we …
Breathing in Those Around Us
I overheard a conversation yesterday, because I am nosy and the two women were enchanting. They were sitting on a velvet green couch in the corner of a hotel where I was also staying. Sitting close, almost knee-to-knee, one with …
Five “Sensible” Ways to Show Your Friends (and Yourself) Kindness
Recently, I was flipping through a magazine and stumbled upon a picture of four women. These ladies were posing as best friends — walking barefoot down a picturesque beach while holding goblets of wine, kicking up sand and laughing. Each woman …
From the Heart
The steady rhythm of your heart is wholly unique to you, yet the even cadence of each beat is similar to every other heart. Otnaracy Silva, a MOPS Coordinator and family doctor in Brazil, witnesses this phenomenon on a daily …
Why Suffering Is Key to a Successful Marriage
“I don’t want us to be afraid of adversity,” my husband says. We’re in the van, on our way home from church, of course, because that’s when many of our fights happen, the boys in the back eating granola bars …
Choose Vulnerability
Vulnerability: one of life’s most radical opportunities for immense failure or intense joy. Relationships allow us a choice: to enter in with all that we are, or to cautiously hold ourselves at bay. Subconsciously, or maybe consciously, we evaluate others. Are …