Have you been running yourself ragged for too long, mom-friend? Have you been beating yourself up, berating your own tenancies and characteristics like a bootcamp sergeant? Are you feeling worn out, beat up and stomped on…mainly by your own doing? Perhaps, like me, you’re in a season of needing to be tender with yourself, extending grace and engaging in practices …
The Greatest Competition that Never Was
I sat in the waiting room babbling away to the woman next to me in the adorable outfit and impeccable hair with her babe laid to her breast. I don’t know why I felt the need to explain to the woman next to me why my baby was drinking from a bottle. I wanted her to know that I had …
A Prayer of Truths for When You Just Don’t Feel It
Hey, God. Yeah, it’s me again. … So… I’m tired. And to be honest, it doesn’t seem like You’re doing a whole lot to help out here, but I know my feelings can be liars. I feel like you’re off somewhere else, giving everyone else their miracles. I feel like when I talk to You, You just can’t hear it. …
The Writer’s Battle
*This is a free-write exercise. I was wrestling with all kinds of thoughts and ideas and was getting nowhere. So, I sat down and wrote whatever came. Being a free write, I am publishing it unedited (except for spelling).Thanks to my friend Deborah for the idea of stepping away and just…writing* Words pound in heart and head, threatening to destroy …
When Your Dreams Disappear
“What are you longing for, deep down in the depths of your soul?…Use your imagination…go on, close you’re eyes and dream.” I stared at those words on the page in front of me and blinked hard. What are you longing for? Sleep!! Came the cry from my heart. Ha! Beyond that…what are your dreams? Your callings? What makes you come …
Ripples of Grace – A New Perspective on the Mommy Wars
The internet has been all a flutter recently over the arrival of the new royal baby. You would be hard pressed to visit any news website or social media outlet and not see something about the big news. And for each media outlet post, there has been every manner of remark about Kate herself, and the timing and fashion in which …
How City Life Has Changed My Extroverted Tendencies
I love people. I always have. My nickname in elementary school was Hug-a-bunch. Yeah. For me, the more people I’m around the better (within reason…huge, massive crowds like those found in Times Square on NYE freak me out), but in general give me people and I’m a happy camper. I enjoy doing workout videos in the comfort of my own …
Vienna, Personified
Someone once said that Paris is a woman, London is a man, and New York City is a transvestite. Granted, I haven’t been to New York outside the airport, but after my visits to Paris and London, I must say I find that statement to be shockingly true. It always amazes – and delights – me how each major European …
5 Things I Learned About Myself on My First Ski Trip
Having grown up a desert rat in central and southern Arizona, skiing was always somewhat of a foreign concept to me. It was something either rich people did, or college kids on winter break. Certainly not an option for a girl like me: not an athletic bone in her body who lived hours away from any possibility of snow. Then …
What’s the Point of Singing “Peace on Earth?”
Bombs exploding around the world. Children gunned down in their schools and classrooms. The “Land of the Free” and “Home of the Brave” ripped apart once again by racial tensions and ethnic divides. The world is going to hell in a hand basket and it flies in the face of what we see and hear during this Christmas season. We …