This post makes me feel like the last one on the block to take down the Christmas tree. Who cares that I’m just now finding time to compile my list of books for 2016. It’s one of my favorite things to do and last year’s list deserves to be remembered and documented. Last summer I joined… Continue reading 2016 Book List
(I’ve been mentored by Ann Voskamp for the past four years. We’ve never met, yet through the power of the written word and the internet’s magic, I sit on a regular basis at the feet of this humble and wise soul. She gifted the world with another book and I have a story I can’t… Continue reading Dear Ann, (A Letter to my Spiritual Mentor)
“The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young.” — James Hollis Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life I turn fifty next year. Fifty. Fifty. Fifty. Fifty.… Continue reading The Party is Just Getting Started
There is nothing that lights my fire more than watching someone live what I call a good story. There are as many ways to describe what ‘good’ means as there are trees in the forest. A good story makes my heart beat fast and I know when I see it. It pours out a certain… Continue reading When Falling Means Rescue
[PART ONE: The idea of “a sacred history” has captured my imagination this month. I’ve found myself internally shining its light on my relationships as wife, friend, mother. Writing in this quiet corner of the digital world is one way I process the big ideas, especially those seen through the lens of story. In these dog… Continue reading A Sacred History: The Persevering Art of Marriage
The Story Place 