Month: October 2019

Some transitions are unexpectedly hard. My ex-husband is a pastor, which meant that when we got divorced, I had to find a new church. Or, as turned out to be the case most weeks, I had to (got to?) adjust to a new schedule on Sunday mornings that didn’t involve wrestling small children into nice… Continue reading Farewell to a Church Family – with Love

I’ve recently fallen back in love with books. Not that I ever really stopped loving them. I’m a bibliophile at heart, but over the past few years, my literature consumption had waned significantly. It wasn’t just the arrival of children in my life. When they were tiny, I read a lot. I have luminous memories… Continue reading Audiobooks Reignite a Reader’s Passion

With every relocation, there’s that one last box that resists being unpacked. Long after the dishes are in the cupboard, the clothes are in the dresser, and the hair dryer is tucked into its new drawer, that last box lingers. It sits in the corner of the den, or just inside the door to the… Continue reading Unpacking the Final Box