Guns Killed People
When will we stop using violence to solve our problems? What creative steps can we take to prevent these tragedies?
Time To Get Woke
Our familiarity sometimes blinds us to things that are out of the ordinary. “Jesus is Coming Soon” is a favorite song among many in my tradition—Churches of Christ. Its cheery, catchy tune matched with lovely harmonies will embed itself in your brain and have you humming it throughout the week. It’s super familiar to me…
Personal Food Code
Because I love my family, and because I don’t want to knowingly feed them the ingredients for diabetes, cancer, or various autoimmune diseases, I’m in perpetual learning-and-adjusting mode regarding what we should eat and how we should live. My family, of course, isn’t always exceedingly grateful and happy about this. But, I refuse to let…
Motherhood Mondays: One Day They’ll Leave (Part 3: Middle School)
She’s going to middle school. MIDDLE SCHOOL! In just FOUR months, she’ll be a middle schooler and the anxious dreams have already started. That’s actually what signaled to my conscious brain that the anxiety had set in—the dreams. Of course I knew that 6th grade comes after 5th. And in this part of the country,…