I wrote following post in October. It seems like it was the key that fit the hole, turned the lock, and opened the door to my breakdown. The words poured out of me in strength: then fear rushed in to the vacancy the words left behind. I can remember every day from the day the […]
Seeing Through a Glass Darkly
I’m sitting with my fingers posed above keys, my eyes locked on the cotton flying about the street just outside the window. Bits of fluff, dodging cars and leaping through branches, and then, before my eyes, a girl. The tips of her hair are white. The white bleeds upward into purple. The purple becomes white […]
Sacred Smallness: A 31 Day Series
“With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.” Posts in This Series Boundaries in Marriage Boundaries in Parenting Shake Out and Play, Mama (a poem) Grace Applied: More Thoughts on Boundaries Still The Loneliness Reeks (a poem) Things Reset Weaning Contrite and Lowly: Thoughts on Isaiah 57 The Gift Of You (a […]
You Write With Your Life
So you wander the world and you write and you write and you post and you blog and you – You connect. You don’t know that’s what you’re doing, but it is, you are connecting with something bigger than yourself, something outside yourself, something to give perspective and adult sound to the days of toddlers […]
The Writer’s Self-Conscious
There’s a certain enticement toward image-crafting when the art is online. Here are the words, and I love to craft them – bend them, stretch them, move them around, re-shape, delete. Ann Voskamp writes that some women can peaches, but she cans words. Over here, the medium is more akin to scrapbooking – a single […]
Seven Short Thoughts and a Download
First off: My homeschool weekly schedule charts are available as downloads! The number one source of traffic I receive on this site is to my AO-inspired weekly schedules (thank you, Pinterest). I’ve emailed off so many of these things and FINALLY have them on the website as simple downloads. I’m a slow duck, but may this […]
Ashes, Ashes, Body and Blood
The ashes in my mouth taste like talc and powder. I swallow, move the tongue, wipe between teeth. It’s always like this, always a material experience that solidifies the visceral into something I understand. It’s candles to facilitate prayer, it’s arms raised to worship, it’s dancing on a cliff’s ledge to break before the Spirit. It’s […]
Brave April (the post that almost wasn’t)
I’m just going to start. I tried to think of some fancy – or even coherent – way to put this, but I don’t have those type of words in me. It’s April, and April is the month I focus on writing brave words, which sounds silly because actually it was only one April, last April, […]
Website Relaunch and Remodel – welcome back, I’ve missed you!
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. – Proverbs 16:9 I’ve remodeled! I have no idea if you’ve noticed, but this here website has spent the better part of the last 3 months offline. It was a minor first-world catastrophe on my end. After the amazing experiencing of writing and hosting October’s 31 day […]
here’s a woman who knew
“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.” -Abigail Adams {{yes}}