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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 of Port [...]
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 else appeared [...]
My favorite part of this new blog design is the tag line: “Choose 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 go [...]
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 mileage. A [...]
Asking Toby what he wants to be for Halloween is the last thing I should do the week before Halloween. Yet there I was yesterday morning, blurting the question very open-endedly as if the world were his costume oyster.
Costumes stump me every year. Maybe because I wait until the last minute, or maybe because Toby loves anything unorthodox and [...]
All right you Running Mamas let’s talk some business. Fall is here. Forget autumn foliage. Forget pumpkin spice lattes. Forget Old Navy pullovers. The best part of fall is running. No more trespassing through lawn sprinklers to fend off heatstroke. Glory!!! Nothing beats a chilly run. I love seeing my breath as I lace up my [...]
Sometimes I feel stuck in some sort of Copperfield-ian sphere where nothing is really what it seems. My friend just had a baby and of course I can barely talk about him without lactating into a puddle of nostalgia. Toby and Charlie were babies like last week, right? That’s how it feels anyway, which leaves me scratching my [...]
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