I recently had the joy of spending an hour with Leigh Moody and Kristin Smith on their new podcast “Women on the Remake.” I think their podcast fills such a need for women (and men) who are facing an opportunity, whether by force or choice, to remake their lives into something new. It’s scary, and…
The Silent Pause We Need
My friend Bill Brown, a professor at Columbia Theological Seminary and my occasional Sunday School teacher, wrote an amazing Easter piece here that discusses the empty tomb of Easter as almost prescient to the situation we find ourselves in, as we sit in quarantine due to COVID19. After all, Jesus’ first appearance after resurrection was to…
The Greatest Power in the Universe Is Not Love.
I am in so much pain right now. I can’t eat. I can’t sleep well. All I do is cry or try to hide my crying from others. Before my best girlfriend died last week, she said, “You’ve been through so much,” and I told her that I wouldn’t trade it, because I am an…
To My Dearly Departed Person: A Letter About Grief
When I moved to Decatur in 2008, you were my first friend and quickly became my best one. We had both just moved to the Winnona Park neighborhood, didn’t know anyone and were trying to find our group. So our group started with each other. From the beginning, you were trying to get me to…
How to Forgive Yourself When You Can’t: Seek Humility
I got our dog back when my ex-husband, John, died in January. John caught a viral infection of the heart and was recovering when he developed sepsis and passed. It was excruciating to all of us to lose him. Our divorce was final two weeks before he landed in ICU, which was a blessing considering…
Transform Your Relationships: Get Your Cape
Gosh, I LOVE September break!! But we know I always have a story from vacations. Bumpy sailing is what creates a good story after all, and it seems like Boy and I wreck our sailboat every time we go out of town…. After a long weekend at the beach with my girlfriends and their kids,…