Has this blog ever been about anything else? Mazzy. Mazzy. My first child. The girl who changed the world. My...
Category: thankful
twentymoon
apparently twenty years isn't very long. when i was young a month seemed never ending and a year felt so...
lack of love and the holidays
maybe your family tree is a little bit of a thicket. a gnarled bramble of fallen and crisscrossed limbs and...
the great intelligence of kindness
mazzy has been busy with her high school musical. she's been spending nights at rehearsal, putting together costume ideas and...
shall i compare thee to a summer’s day?
that will shakespeare really knew what he was saying. "And summer’s lease hath all too short a date." ain't it...
baptizing children
they put her in a white robe. it was her birthday. eight years old. it was easter and she had...
codependent as the day is long
i have a real problem. i'm nearly addicted to the approval of people. it's strange. and it strangles. it has...
santa is over for now
the holidays. sigh. the holidays found me bumming a cigarette off strangers and wandering through the woods with bright sunlight...
when madeleine l’engle kicked my ass
after i hung up the phone and told joshua what i'd just learned, we knew that our tiny church plant...
lord, to whom can we go?
O Lord my God. Teach my heart this day where and how to find you. You have made me and...