Posted in Writing on Sep 6th, 2011
Last Tuesday, a friend sent me an email with a link to a free writing retreat at Laity Lodge through The High Calling. “I saw this and thought of you,” she wrote. My first thought was, A free retreat at Laity Lodge? What do I have to do? I clicked on the link and quickly [...]
Posted in Gratitude, Raising kids on Jan 7th, 2011
I took my first antidepressant yesterday. I also marked the lintel of our front doorframe with the letters C, M, and B, the traditional initials of the Magi who journeyed from far-off lands to worship the Christ Child. It seems fitting, I suppose, that those two things happened on the same day, on Epiphany. Like [...]
Posted in Spiritual Life on Dec 21st, 2010
I think – I am cautiously hopeful – that I’m coming back from wherever it is I’ve been this past month. I’m not exactly sure where I was or why I went there, but I’m pretty sure postpartum hormones and six months of sleep deprivation had something to do with it. And I’m very sure [...]
I am a reader (I feel about books the way some people feel about chocolate: yum), a writer (I've written a book, even: The Circle of Seasons: Meeting God in the Church Year), and a mother (of four). So that's what I blog about: reading, writing, and raising my kids.