It has happened. I took my kids to the museum over and over again and now they love going to the museum. The grown up museum. The one with the real art and the expansive botanical gardens. The ones w...
They say that there are hundreds of earthquakes every day but that we can’t feel most of them because they are too small, they are too far under the surface or we are busy going about our lives doing...
What I’m scared of the most is the thing I most try to avoid. Read the rest of my “Anything” post here. Jennie Allen writes a book called Anything: The Prayer that Unlocked My God and My ...
None of us are superheroes. When we say I can handle it, I’m alright, I don’t need any help, we make ourselves out to be some kind of superheroes. No soul can live up to that. I think when we do this...
I didn’t have much of a choice when we decided to sell our house nearly 18 months ago. “I don’t know how long we can keep doing this, Sarah,” my husband said to me. We were sitting down at our kitche...
mid-dle adjective, noun, verb 1. equally distant from the extremes or outer limits, central. 2. intermediate or intervening. 3. medium or average. “How old are you again?” my therapist asked me to re...
REI co-op is an adventurer’s heaven. A trekker’s dream. It’s the playground of backpackers and outdoors-people alike. Ever been there? I used to go to REI with my dad as a kid way before it was cool....
Join me on A Deeper Story today. I’m writing about cheering when the villains “get it” in the end, offering mercy instead of judgement and what I’m learning in my own life abo...
My husband gave up any love for solitary sports years ago. His ADD never let him enjoy things like golfing or fishing because by the 3rd hole or by the time the bait was on the hook, he was already b...
It’s all about self-control. And about love. Our whole lives worth of personal struggles find their way back to self control: exercise, dieting, keeping my heart from wandering. They are all issues o...
I’m on (in)courage today talking about dead frogs and barns and grudges. It’s a slice from my girlhood. Catching Frogs From suburban Southern California, my family made the trip to Northe...
If you put it up against the theological truth that inside each of us is a soul already loved by God, then it is false. We are already loved, we are already chosen, we’ve been plucked from the abyss ...
We all need friends who will ebb with us and flow with us. Who will mark out for the weekend, leave the kids with the husbands for 30 hours and meet me in a city by the sea. We need those TV-watching...
We could spend a thousand dollars in therapy hashing out the last 16 years. We could talk about what I’ve done or what you’ve done and the habits that we carry now. The rhythms that live in each of o...
On Monday I lost something very important to me. Without going into detail, it was a piece that I’d been working on {a piece of writing to be exact} that was longer than usual for me. I’d printed it ...
I’m on the Allume blog again talking about marriage and community. This is the last in my marriage series for them so be sure to join me! Marriage: Community I don’t have to tell you now that y...
When we only had a cat leaving for the weekend was no big deal. We’d give her double the food {we’re a free-feeding family} and double the water, clean out her little and let her fend for...
People are only important because we make them important. We spend our “currency” on clicks, retweets, repins and likes. And when we do that, we make certain people very important. So imp...
I’m human. So is he. Seems simple, but often I don’t let him be, well, a man. I’m writing about grace in marriage today on the Allume blog. Come over and join the conversation. Marr...
I’m on Deeper Story today talking about how we label each other. You’re bad. I’m good. We’re better than they are. It gets a little silly. Today I’m trying to delve into...
It happens at least once a week. I write IT’S when it should be ITS, and ITS when it should be IT’S. I know, I know. I should be much more careful of major grammatical mistakes such as that. As a for...
I’m doing a three part marriage series on the Allume blog beginning today! I’d love for you to join me over there this morning. Marriage: Honesty We’d been married for half a year already...
“I’ve been meaning to tell you this for years: you’re the worst mom I’ve ever met.” I had a dream someone told me this. It was someone I knew. And who knew my kids. In the dream, I stood up, and with...
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