I am reading a book. I've talked about it here before. It's called Anything by Jennie Allen. Please just go read it. But while you w...

After a string of incredibly busy days, we are wrapping up graduation junction with a trip to Las Vegas. My father is turning 60 at the end ...

Before you remind me I am a girl, let me clarify and say Nehemiah is a go-getter. God said jump. Nehemiah did it and added a round of push-u...

 So, tonight I was listening to a guy named Philip De Courcy, a very Irish fellow. He's an excellent speecher, and looks not at all how ...

I have something to say. Well, probably, but I cannot think of it straight off. So I'll ramble on, which, jayehs, is a great song. Thank...

So many things are coming to a close in our life right now. Some are direct, but some are happening to people around us. Friends having fi...

Many things are new in this land. I don't mean your land. I mean our land. "This land" is what Sam calls any happenings that a...

Tonight I taught a class of seriously awesome adults. Every Wednesday and Thursday, for a few hours, I trade in my kindergarten hat, my wife...

Brave: start: I want to be brave, really. Sometimes I stand at the edge of the diving board (theoretically of course because I scarce know...

Our book club has begun. Officially. I love the atmosphere at Starbucks. My hazelnut latte wasn't too bad either. The best part though w...

Jennie Allen wrote a book that is jacking up my boundaries, my ease. I have spent a year in a job I have thoroughly enjoyed, but if I am hon...

Type for five minutes flat without editing on one topic. Today, that topic is Friend: Go My friends, the girl in the PNW and the other g...

My belly feels like there is a rock sitting in it. I blame the coffee. It was super strong. So naturally I drank two cups with a sugary muff...

I love the Earth. I really do, but this holiday is so obscure. We teach it in school. Usually we plant things. Which I think I will do with ...

Rule: Write for 5 minutes flat on the prompt “Jump” with no editing, tweaking or self critiquing. Jumping. I jump. I jumped. I am jumping...

waiting.. for anything keeping quiet for lengths of time exercise. Today I wrangled 13 kindergarteners and a bus full of elementary kids ...

I awoke just now to rain on my window pane. I don't live in Seattle, so it's easy for me to say I love it. It is 3 in the morning, a...

Sometimes I get so convoluted with words and noises and confusion that I don't hear what's being graciously whispered into my ear re...

So why don't I just lay it all out there: A) I want Stephanie Meyer to finish writing Midnight Sun. I don't care if she publishes ...

I am pretty sure she is standing over my shoulder. She's God's number one on my case of whines and whimpers. Example: God wakes...