Amethyst Joy

Amethyst Joy

Amethyst Joy is one of my favorite Instagram follows. She has a way of revealing how wound sources show up in parenting. Her words are deep and soft and true; a reminder that we can do better. And she does it without twisting the knife. Even though my kids are grown,...
Splish Splash

Splish Splash

So I was lowering down into a hot bubble bath as you do in the middle of a Monday and this email from my publisher popped up: Your book is available for preorder NOW and ONLY at:...
The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid

The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid

The final, as-good-as-I-can-make-it version of my memoir, The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid, just swooped through space to my publisher. After weeks (months?) of editing, reading, proofing, re-reading, re-editing, re-proofing, I am STOKED to be...

Isolation

I’m thinking about isolation.  Not what you do on a Sunday morning? Just me? Several recent conversations with my sisters and my mother have reminded me how isolated we all were from each other in years past.  The stage was set within our family for absolute...