Fall Melancholy

(Alabama, November 2012) The shift from summer to fall always brings an inexplicable sadness with it. I love all the traditional …

Week of Silence

My writing class is participating in a "Week of Silence" social media fast to help us quiet our minds, listen for our o…

Owning It

Two friends and I are about halfway through reading and discussing Anything by Jennie Allen. If you haven't read it, it'…

I'm Not Josie Grossie Anymore

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there …

The Problem With Thankfulness

Although I have as many pet sins and personal issues as everyone else, thankfulness has never been among my struggles. I believe…

Freecell = Life

When I was in college, equally immersed in playing Freecell and writing melodramatic poetry, I wrote a free-verse poem comparing…

Sovereign God = empowered women.

(via weheartit ) I was blown away by this passage from my current read, When Life and Beliefs Collide by Carolyn Custis James. T…

2010: A Year in Review

I've been filling out the same end-of-year survey since 2002. It's crazy to see how much my life has changed over those y…