On Devotions, Dancing, and Deviled Eggs (English and Spanish)
When I think of my mother-in-law, I always think of deviled eggs. You know deviled eggs. You boil an egg. Cut it in two. Remove the yolk. Make a filling…
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God’s Unlimited Abundance Creates Abundant Hearts English and Spanish
Lead image from Stockcake In recent years, I’ve read and heard much about perspectives of scarcity vs abundance. Cultivating an abundant mindset is something that challenges me. I blame it…
A Field Guide to Funerals and other Family Functions (English and Spanish)
We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men…We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you…
I Call it Faith; The Radical Nature of Loving Your Neighbor
“Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person.” — Fred Rogers I’ve written…
On Badgers, Bears, and Beauty: Learning to be Whole and Holy
I am not, by nature, a morning person, although as I get older that has started to change, partly due to the necessity of rising to teach early 8 a.m.…
On the Feel of Fall Mornings Both Present and Past
I went for a walk the other morning, two dogs in tow, through the damp and musty trees on a path up the canyon near my home. It had been…
Creamy Memories
When I was a little girl, I somehow became aware of memories. I was interested in the idea of memories and how to make them. I read about how characters…
A Note on Loss
In the last couple of years I have written and received too many condolence letters. And I wonder about them, these artifacts of sorrow and grief, inscribed with a litany…
On Stardust
I am sitting in one corner of my family room late at night, my laptop filling my view while the sounds of a quieting house surround me—I can hear the…