books

There are lots of things to be sad about with this corona thing, but a serious silver lining over here is sisters. Oh man do I ever love these lovely ladies. One of my favorite things during this whole quarantine has been listening/watching them hype Lucy up about Harry Potter.…

When I took my class on Grace last semester, one thing, among the thousands, that hit me was that our teacher (a therapist) explained that everyone has two basic emotional needs: 1) to be ok, and 2) to know that they matter. Isn’t it the most beautiful form of human…

One of my goals last year was to read at least two new books each month. And I’m pretty happy that I DID IT, even with an extra one to make it 25! Ok, I actually listened to most of them (Audible rocks!), but hey, sometimes you have to cling…

I have had this idea of the beauty of messiness rambling around in my thoughts lately. I was intrigued by early America described in the book I talked about back HERE (The Prosperity Paradox), and then again the early America described in Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton (still going on that…

I’ve been thinking a lot about poverty and prosperity lately. It’s something that really, I’ve thought about for as long as I remember. From the time I was a young teenager and my Dad traveled to Mali, Africa and to a small town in rural China. I have no recollection…

I have a draft of a post about not coddling our kids I thought I’d share today but I just feel like I want to share a few other things instead. Like how I adore this girl and want to coddle her all the time. Ha! (That was during Fall…

I used to commute to work when we lived in D.C. Whether it was riding the metro or driving in the “slugline” (a carpool-type way to get into the city), I would sometimes look around at all those around me and wonder about their stories. They all had them, of…

Ok I have really been holding firm to my goal to read at least two books each month in 2019 and I’m loving it. (My memorization goal, on the other hand, isn’t going quite so hot, but we don’t have to talk about that right now! ha!) I can’t quite…

Last week I shed some tears over this book: Yep, standing there in my bathroom getting ready for the day, listening to the most beautiful words wash over me from a copy I was listening to from the library. After I “bookmarked” probably half of the lines in my very…

I wrote a little bit about our “summer expectations” back HERE. I used the word “expectations” rather than goals because my girls were too dang slow to make their regular summer goals so I decided to set up some expectations instead. You know, give them a little of my medicine.…