September 29, 2016 After my walk/run this morning, I dripped with sweat. Seriously saturated. Wet clothes. Wet hair. Sweat lines poured...

September 28, 2016 Whenever I feel lost and out of place and ready to throw in the towel (how will this place ever feel like home?), all...

September 26, 2017 There’s nothing like a wedding bookended by two seven-hour drives to turn things around. We closed out September with...

September 8, 2016 Everything hit me at once. Everything. And September was a mysterious blur with me being rolled over and over again by...

September 6, 2016 Today, I salvaged my plants. Finally. My houseplants travelled with us during the move in laundry baskets. They stayed...

September 4, 2016 On the way home from somewhere, driving through our neighborhood, a woman walking with two children yelled at us, “Slow...

September 3, 2016 After weathering the storm of the first week of school, we prepared for our next - an actual storm. Storms are always...

September 2, 2016 Yesterday was spent in prayer for Abby. She was so on-my-mind that I started writing a story about her. It came to me...

August 31, 2016 The third day of school, I started to relax. A good routine had been established. Abby’s good reports had continued. So,...

August 29, 2016 Today is the big day - Abby’s first day of school. First day of middle school. First day in a North Carolina school....