I’m 39 today. I’ve been dreading this birthday. It marks the last gasp of a brutal decade—one that ushered in…
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What I’m Learning from These Wires on My Chest
There’s a frog in my chest. It hops around, especially at night, and on bad days makes me feels like…
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Nothing So Broken: Being the Clay
Once and a while a song outside my normal music genre resonates with something inside. Lately it’s been Mandisa’s hit,…
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That Sanctifyin’ Kinda Love
I have a complicated relationship with my youngest daughter. By “complicated” I don’t mean bad, I just mean…well, complicated. We…
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Trust Fall
Last week I shared the ugly reality of my current faith coordinates, which place me smack in the middle of…
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When the Toilet is Your Sanctuary: A Mother’s Day Post
My Mother’s Day was like a bad country song. There were disappointments (Panera being out of bagels – out of them…
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Stranger Things to Say
It happened again last week, as it often does. A well-intentioned stranger, upon admiring my youngest daughter’s silky mocha skin…
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God Is.
We had violent thunderstorms last night, so when I woke early to a clear blue sky, I couldn’t resist sneaking…
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