Storytelling
  • Snatching the Weekend from Defeat

    Our weekend started off shaky, but we held on. We didn’t let go of God. Together, we held hands across ...

  • It’s Getting Hairy

    My tools are out, drafted for duty into the unjust Hair War: shampoo, conditioner (wash-out and leave-in), combs, various brushes, and the blow dryer—silent, they stand ...

  • More than Apple Pie

    God help me, I wish I’d never started that pie.

    If I hadn’t been convinced my worth could be found and sifted together ...

  • The Fruit-Bearing Tree

    I stand at the granite surface of the kitchen island, chopping kielbasa into coins and feeding dry spaghetti noodles through each smoky disc for a dish ...

  • No Bandwidth for Family

    We moved from the old house—the only house our big kids had ever known—to have a basement like the one we have now. There was more ...

  • Prepared for the Pandemic

    I say I’m a pinball, and I’m glad the machine belongs to God. I can look back and see that when I started dreaming about things ...

  • Finding My Thanksgiving

    This year, I faced strange challenges in my role as mother and trainer of children. The whisper came back: Is another child of mine being mistreated ...

  • Impossible

    “Ignorant” is actually the appropriate denotation – the definition of the idea that No One gave us all the things we have. That Nobody made all the things ...

  • I Have Feelings, Mama

    I honestly forget who I am sometimes. I think I’m a writer. But writing’s ✍🏽 something I can do. I think of myself as “Mom,” ...

  • God Loves What Drives You Nuts

    God loves the people that annoy me. Do you know that God loves the people who annoy you?

    There was this lady I ...