on self care

by | Oct 18, 2012 | lifeblog

Sometimes I think I have myself convinced that the absence of tears is strength. That answering ‘fine’ is a good thing. That if I don’t love fully, deeply, there will be less of myself to hurt. What a crock.———-The other day I wrote...

on being a working mom

by | Oct 9, 2012 | lifeblog

I haven’t been a working mom for very long – just shy of 7 months now. I am the social networking and webinar manager for a non-profit ministry resource company, and work 20ish hours/week mostly from home. There are a lot of things going on there: social...

on community: (in)couraging Working New Moms

by | Oct 2, 2012 | lifeblog

An event, planned by a stranger whose heart I know, prompted a text from a new friend. We’d host together. She invited her friends. One of them thought she may know me – an email sent confirmed it. I had been her counselor at camp a hundred years ago. That...

on being (in)RealLife

by | Apr 30, 2012 | lifeblog

This weekend, I went to a virtual beach house with nearly 30 other women. We savored chocolate cupcakes and drank hot coffee. We put our feet up, scooted together on couches, shared blankets, laughed and cried. ———- Every day, posts from (in)courage...

you’re already amazing

by | Apr 3, 2012 | Uncategorized

The book sat in my ‘to-read’ pile, first on the nightstand, then on a weathered apple crate beside my old yellow desk. “I’ll get to it soon”, I told myself confidently, ignoring the twitch of my heart; I didn’t really want to get to...

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