tiny million pieces…

tiny million pieces…

I sat on a blue, velvet recliner and listened to my best friend articulately describe the pain she was feeling. Her dreams—in her words—were in a million tiny pieces. She leapt through the air in front of thousands of people at the Olympic trials and...
tap, poke, scrape: excavation of our hearts…

tap, poke, scrape: excavation of our hearts…

It’s been twenty years. Everything felt fine. It wasn’t until my dentist requested an x-ray that things got complicated. Tap, tap. Poke. Scrape.  But twenty years unraveled in nothing more than twenty minutes of sitting in his automatic chair. Bianca,...
the lost…

the lost…

We’ve all misplaced something at some point or another. Our keys. Our shoes. Our minds. But eventually we find them and sigh a sigh of relief. But there are times when something is lost. No recollection, no path, no hope. In Luke 15 Jesus speaks of a woman who...
stepparenting: failed…

stepparenting: failed…

Yesterday was quite possibly the worst failure in my career as a life-long stepparent. Oh Internet, I try. I really do, but sometimes my dreams of being an amazing stepparent and standup comedian go up in a ball of flames. The example: Parker, my eight year-old...

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