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July 2010

July 07, 2010

Antidote to Helicopter Parenting

Micha and August are on a plane to Amarillo to visit family. Trophy husband Chris...

July 06, 2010

Thankful Tuesday Ramblings

It’s Thankful Tuesday! Sometimes on Thankful Tuesday I list everything I’m grateful for. Sometimes I...

July 05, 2010

Hover-Crazy Mommies?

So, it’s the morning after the 4th, a holiday! Which, of course, means that I...

July 02, 2010

Motherhood: A Blog Fight, a Culture War, and Grace

This week my brother, Jason Boyett, asked me to guest post on his blog, O...

June 2010

June 30, 2010

Breathing The Jesus Prayer

I met with my spiritual director, Debby, yesterday morning. Have I mentioned yet that she’s...

June 28, 2010

It’s Thankful Tuesday Time!

We haven't had a Thankful Tuesday list for too long, friends. So, I'm starting it...

June 28, 2010

Remember

Yesterday, the sermon was about Communion and how it challenges us towards community, memory and...

June 24, 2010

Great is Thy Faithfulness

As I write this it is almost midnight, June 24th. Two years ago at this...

June 23, 2010

50/50?

Tonight I left Chris at home to feed, play with and put August to bed...

June 22, 2010

Adjusting

It’s been one week since we arrived home from a ten-day trip out east to...

June 17, 2010

Julie Bowen and Our Bellies

A couple of weeks ago, I noticed a link on Twitter to an article about...

June 16, 2010

For Phil and Brother Shad

Tonight as Chris, freshly home from work, sat on our bed, removing his shoes while...

June 15, 2010

Thankful Tuesday: Husband Edition

Yes, it's already evening on the east coast and I haven't written since Thursday. But,...

June 10, 2010

Coming Home

"Coming Home" is such a cliché. Remember in Sleepless in Seattle when Tom Hanks describes...

June 08, 2010

Thankful Tuesday at the pool.

I'm on vacation. Sitting by the pool at my mother in law's home, waiting for...

June 07, 2010

Staying Power

Yes, fellow poet nerds: I've found a new poem for the month of June. I've...

June 03, 2010

Lord, Lord, Lord.

Friends, This process of writing to you almost every day is a strange one. And...

June 02, 2010

A Living Incompleteness

I’ve recently begun reading A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World by...

May 2010

May 31, 2010

Remembering Long

Memorial Day and Thankful Tuesday are joining forces today. As I type, it’s still Monday;...

May 28, 2010

Loving “Hyla Brook” for what it is.

I wrote before that I’ve never really studied Robert Frost. But I was drawn to...

May 27, 2010

An Invitation to Believe

I mentioned briefly last week that I’ve begun meeting with a spiritual director, the concept...

May 24, 2010

Spending Thankful Tuesday with Sandra McCracken and Anne Steele

On this fine Thankful Tuesday I want to share with you a hymn that has...

May 23, 2010

Stability

Of the vows Benedictine monks take, the one I haven’t yet mentioned is that of...

May 23, 2010

Stability

Of the vows Benedictine monks take, the one I haven’t yet mentioned is that of...

May 20, 2010

My week in bullet points:

Monday, when I was feeling most content with our housing situation and was prepared to...

May 18, 2010

my list, your list

What I'm thankful for today: Today August starts a full morning preschool art program! That...

May 17, 2010

Ascension Day

“To embrace the Ascension is to heave a sigh of relief, to give up the...

May 14, 2010

The Mama’s Boy

For the past two weeks my husband’s job has kept him pretty busy. He has...

May 13, 2010

Molly Ringwald and “The Pretty”

Friends, I sat for two hours last night staring at my computer screen with an...

May 12, 2010

Gently, Truthfully, Simply

We should speak gently and seriously with words that are weighty and restrained. We should...