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February 2014

February 10, 2014

Sunsets and Droughts

Today I'm over at Deeper Story thinking about the complications of gratefulness: how sometimes beauty...

August 2013

August 20, 2013

First Day: The Holding and the Letting Go

For months we’ve been talking about this. This thing is coming. This change. When all...

June 2013

June 20, 2013

Marriage and the Growing Up of Us

When did we grow up? It wasn’t then, when we stood in the mountain meadow,...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

One Good Phrase: Annie Barnett (Everyone is learning)

I love Annie Barnett because the kindness that shows up in her writing and visual...

March 2013

March 19, 2013

For Brooksie, on his 2nd birthday (A Thankful Tuesday post, of sorts)

Brooksie, when I got you out of bed on your second birthday, I whispered....

September 2012

September 17, 2012

True all the way through (A Deeper Church post)

I'm very excited to officially announce that I'm joining the ranks at A Deeper Church,...

September 14, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Mark Strand

This is how it happens: You grieve the news that you will leave your home....

September 10, 2012

What sharpens our vision, our calling?

This weekend while visiting my family in Amarillo, I had a conversation with a friend...

August 2012

August 27, 2012

Marriage and the Easy Yoke

“Are you so pissed at your husband for making you move?” The stylist's fingers were...

August 20, 2012

Waiting

I wait for the Lord; my soul waits for him; in his word is my...

July 2012

July 05, 2012

Of course we can’t have it all. (But still we can flourish.)

I’m sure you probably read this month’s featured article in the Atlantic. If you haven’t,...

July 02, 2012

The Slow Work of Foundation-Making

Cat and me and a few of the girls we love Two weeks ago,...

June 2012

June 19, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: 8 Years

Christopher, when we were first dating, riding in cars together, my fingers running through the...

June 05, 2012

Thankful Tuesday: Attending to the wonder

What if we stood up and took notice when we say "wow"? Awe is an...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Girls and Great-Grandmothers and all the Mothers between them

A couple of Sundays ago, I had a phone date with my 90-year-old...

May 25, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Jane Kenyon (again)

Last night, after the kids snuggled into beds and the cat (who is getting better!)...

January 2012

January 04, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} Lord open my lips…

"During the winter season the office of vigils begins with this verse recited three times;...

October 2011

October 28, 2011

Snow piled

We wake up to snow piled on the outdoor table, still parked where it sat...

October 21, 2011

Just Write: The Miracle

You’re up at 5 am. They call this “sleeping through the night.” I groan and...

September 2011

September 28, 2011

Wise Stuff My Husband Said {A Series}: The Bible as Friend

Monday night we sat on the couch, me drinking tea slash eating dark chocolate and...

September 01, 2011

How ‘the ordinary becomes a container for the divine’

My brother and sister in law gave me an Amazon gift card for my birthday....

August 2011

August 16, 2011

All the gifts…I’m thankful

For Brooksie’s sweet excitement after bath time when I’m going to give him a lotion-y...

August 12, 2011

Nostalgia: End of Summer, Week 1 of Austin

It's been one whole week since I began life as a Austin-dweller. So far, I...

July 2011

July 11, 2011

Summer Reading!

Dear people who don’t mind hearing about the details of my life (why do you...

June 2011

June 30, 2011

A Letter to 24-year-old Micha (For the Yoobs in my life…)

Dear younger self, I have some things to tell you, not because I’ve really learned...

June 29, 2011

Wednesday Morning Thankful

Yes, it’s Wednesday. Thankful Tuesday is a day late, I know. But, come on, I’ve...

June 20, 2011

Seven

Sometimes I stop and look across the table at the man with the square jaw...

June 17, 2011

Cotton and Lorraine

Yesterday morning, my 94-year-old Great Aunt Lorraine passed away. She still had dyed flaming red...

June 02, 2011

Why this blog was not titled “Mama:Monk of San Francisco”

When I started writing to all you lovely people, I was pretty lonely. I was...

May 2011

May 20, 2011

A Bigger Story

“When you see your home as a missional outpost, your role as a mother becomes...