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August 2010

August 30, 2010

Sweet Monday

Forgive me. I try not to be your typical mommy blogger, going on and on...

August 26, 2010

Get thee to the back of the plane!

Oh yes, I travel with my son. In fact, with all four of his grandparents...

August 25, 2010

Loving the City

Yesterday I looked at an apartment I adored in Sausalito, a beautiful, quaint little fishing...

August 24, 2010

Birthday Thankful

On Sunday, I turned into a 31 year old. And just as if the Lord...

August 20, 2010

The Prayer of the Hearth

So the book on my bedside table (if I had one…I should actually say: the...

August 18, 2010

Why (Not) to Have Another Baby

Yesterday I received my new copy of Real Simple in the mail. The first night...

August 17, 2010

3 Thankfuls

I am Thankful: 1. August’s room is apartment-size small. (It should not count as a...

August 15, 2010

Rainbows + Diapers = Grateful

This morning at 10:30, I began one of those mundane conversations with my two year...

August 12, 2010

Read this, please.

So, it's 10 at night and my son didn't get in bed till 8:40 ish...

August 11, 2010

Making Room for God

This afternoon during August’s nap time I read Psalm 10 while I curled up under...

August 10, 2010

Thankful Tuesday Summer

It’s Thankful Tuesday. I spent last night participating in one of the great American summer...

August 08, 2010

New poem! New poem!

There are some poets who will never be kindred spirits and whose poems are usually...

August 05, 2010

In Appreciation of “Staying Power”

Tomorrow I will post our new poem for the month of August. But before doing...

August 04, 2010

The Hope of Evolution: A Review of Evolving in Monkey Town by Rachel Held Evans

Over the past couple of weeks, whenever I saw the cover of Rachel Held Evans'...

August 02, 2010

Thankful, Thankful, Thankful

We’re in the never-ending process of looking for a new apartment. (Thankfully, our time in...

August 02, 2010

Why I call myself a “Christian.”

Since Anne Rice’s declaration of her rejection of “Christianity” last week, the blogs I read...

July 2010

July 28, 2010

Because we need a poem about summer rain.

It's not raining here. But perhaps one of you somewhere is reading this in a...

July 26, 2010

Bedtime Thankful

Last month I complained about my son’s sleep issues. I can’t complain anymore. He’s happily...

July 25, 2010

Come, Holy Ghost

This morning in our worship service, I opened my leaflet and got all giddy for...

July 23, 2010

A Route of Evanescence

Last Thursday morning, after the Office of Vigils and before Morning Praise at the monastery,...

July 22, 2010

What’s gonna work? TEAMWORK!

If you don’t automatically start singing the theme song to Wonder Pets when you read...

July 21, 2010

Great Silence

Making the shift from normal life into a Benedictine monastery is shocking. It’s frightening. It...

July 20, 2010

Why I’m thankful for Brother Shawn.

It is Thankful Tuesday and I, after having been MIA for almost a week, am...

July 15, 2010

Why there is no post today…

Hi. Chris here. Micha asked me to publish Alysia's post while she's at the monastery,...

July 14, 2010

The Geography of Home

I'm honored that my dear friend, Alysia Yates, agreed to share some of her fascinating...

July 13, 2010

Embracing Brokenness: An Adoption Story

For the rest of the week I will be off (by myself!) at a Benedictine...

July 12, 2010

Prayer and the Stream

I’ve spent my life loving the mountains. Growing up, if the Boyetts took a vacation,...

July 11, 2010

Worship, breastfeeding, and shifting that paradigm

Dear friends, I'm writing from a cozy cabin in the mountains of Colorado. I've spent...

July 08, 2010

slow, idle, brave

Today, while zooming through a profile piece on an artist and mother in the New...

July 07, 2010

The Cynical Spirit vs The Childlike Spirit?

This past Tuesday morning I faced my hiccupping, wet faced two-year-old nose to nose. It...