I’ll confess: I’ve always been envious of people who know their gifting and chase hard after what they feel they were put on earth to do. For the past few years my husband and I have wrestled with our vocational lives in somewhat dramatic fashion. We have bought and sold a business, launched a startup,…
It has been just over four weeks since we moved, and we’re still stepping over and around big brown boxes. With some of our possessions in the garage, some in a storage unit, and many things still packed up, we all feel a bit disoriented. My middle child has misplaced her tennis shoes. I can’t…
Our school unexpectedly closed for two days this week due to illness. Something of this sort happens every winter, but typically the closure is later in the season and I sense it coming. I was blindsided by this one and ill-prepared to entertain my crew during a meeting and a couple of writing related calls….
This week my middle daughter’s 5th grade class is having a technology-free week at school. They’re discussing how technology is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. On Monday they had “FaceTime” where they paired up with a partner, sat up straight, looked him/her in the eye, and discussed what each of them did over…