When evaluating a candidate for leadership in city, state, or national government, voters are bombarded with competing promises on taxes, borders, and policy gridlock. However, trying to weigh dozens of separate stances is an inefficient way to judg...

Whether your child attends a traditional school or you are considering homeschooling, this article is for you. Many of the questions we should ask about education apply to every family: What does my child need? What is influencing them? Are they lea...

Encouragement Beyond Mother’s Day Last Sunday’s sermon was about words and what they mean. If you have read some of my previous posts, you may already know that I am a bit of a word nerd. I care about definitions, about what words actually mean, and...

I Thought I Covered All the Bases — I Hadn't There is a wonderful program in my community — a headwater initiative dedicated to teaching children and families about waterways, water conservation, water safety, water preservation, fishing, and keepin...

Faith & Language Words Matter — And "Sabbath" Is No Exception A comment on the internet, a flood of pushback, and one word worth getting right. A Blog Post on Scripture, Rest, and Why Definitions Matter ✦ It started with a chicken sandwich joke....

Yesterday evening, I was at the grocery store. It was late, and the store was quiet. There was only the checkout lady, another customer ahead of me, and myself. The two of them were talking, and I must have thought I understood the conversation well...

Mother’s Day and Mixed Feelings Mother’s Day gives me mixed feelings. Not because I don’t love motherhood. I do. In many ways, I feel like I celebrate motherhood every single day. I love being a mother to the children I mother, and today I am marrie...

After sharing some of my thoughts here, I realized I’ve never really explained who I am or why this quiet little space exists in the first place. I come from a very ordinary working-class family. For the first fourteen years of my life, we lived in ...

Sometimes I think about women 100 years ago. Not in a romanticized way. I know life was harder in many ways. But I still find myself wondering what gathering looked like for mothers back then. Did they organize “play dates”? Did they spend so much t...

This is the time of year when families begin thinking about where their children will go to school next year. Maybe you’ve already made your decision. Maybe you haven’t thought about it much at all. Or maybe—if you’re honest—you’ve been avoiding it....

Recently, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, there was a moment that caught my attention. Not because of the headlines. Not because of the politics. But because of how the men responded. In a moment of uncertainty, several husbands instincti...

I didn’t set out to write something like this for my first post. But the more I’ve been thinking about it, the more I feel convicted to say it out loud. And I should say this first: I haven’t always felt this way. For a long time, my mindset was sim...