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This is the most inspiring book I have ever read for kids. Not only does “The Boy Who Changed the World” encourage a child to find his gifts and use them, but it talks about simple serving concepts like feeding the hungry and helping others. There is also a gorgeous illustration of a barn burning [...]
I sent my oldest son, Toby, to Kindergarten this morning. The drive to the school took five minutes. Five short minutes to surrender my child to the large and wicked world. I started crying before we even made it through the double doors. It might have been the functionality of his school: the student monitors [...]
Some days I’m clawing for worth. I mope around, looking under the couch for Charlie’s stuffed Bee while he whines behind me. Suddenly, I’m pining for the self I wanted to be when I was seven. The seven-year-old me wanted to be known, to have some measure of my value etched upon the world like [...]
Unleashing God’s Smallest Warriors This article originally published in the Feb.-Mar. 2010 issue of Deeper. For more articles on faith and family or to subscribe via e-mail to the Mom’s Moments and Deeper Newsletters, go here. My son, Toby, turned five on January 12th. Our family laughed over pizza at his favorite restaurant just as the whole [...]
I wanted to share this beautiful comment from writer Anna Sklar, on the earlier post “Wingman.” She wrote: Recently I came to a place where God asked me if He was enough. If all I ever had was Him, would I be happy with my life. As I was humbled and answered Him “yes,” everything [...]
My favorite part of this new blog design is the tag line: “Find a destination, run fast.” The only problem is me not having a destination. I spend a lot of time writing about my boys. This blog may become the longest book ever written, and if the climax is Toby and Charlie’s passage into adulthood I’m gonna [...]
Insomania is when another person’s sleeplessness makes you want to gouge out your own eyes. It is the second-hand-smoke of insomnia. For over a month Charlie has taken long, happy drags of his own wakefulness. He sits in his bed talking to himself or singing the ABC’s (minus H-P), and showing off with arbitrary bursts of crying. I am stuck with the unfiltered by-products: staring wildly [...]
Having a nice car is right after Polka on a list of things I care about. It drives Greg crazy because he loves all things cars and shops AutoTrader faithfully. He will email me an AutoTrader photo with “What Do You Think?” in the subject line, just for conversation’s sake. What I think is that I don’t care. I want two [...]
A friend sent me a blog post by a dad whose young son just died of a rare medical condition. I read the whole thing, because it was a beautiful muse for those of us seduced by grief. Grief is my gateway drug, beckoning with a dismal finger until the sadness builds into raging anxiety. [...]
This is how much I love my running homies. Below are my best tips to successfully run 13.1. Actually, the advice will work for any middle distance if you tweak the mile increments accordingly. Here is ten years of running expertise bulleted in Microsoft Word, just for YOU. Drum roll… No need to go crazy on [...]
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