It was one of those days when the details weren’t unfolding as I’d planned. But with each turn, I tried to make the best. Half way through the day I found myself having lunch with three of my four beauties at a Chick-fil-A while our minivan’s tire was replaced. Every...
The presence of fear is not the absence of courage, it is the soil of it.
35 Steps to (Prepare to Go) Camping with a Toddler (Hey friends this post appears today over at the Hello, Darling blog! Comment here and comment there!) Camping. It always sounds like such a good idea when you reserve the campsite in February. You are sure potty...
Last year at a dinner at MOMcon in Kansas City I found myself sitting next to a new friend, Kasey Johnson. Delightful is truly how I describe her. She is a woman about solutions but with a soft edge that is encouraging not guilt-enducing. I knew I could glean some...
Sometimes travel takes you to sacred ground, a place you don’t realize is part of you until you arrive. This is a story of one of those places. Where this American girl knew her history was interwoven with the world’s history. From the section Legacy, chapter Heroes...
It is a true treat to get a preview of something the world will love. That was the case with Emily Wierenga’s new book Atlas Girl: Finding Home in the Last Place I Thought to Look that releases today. Emily and I have crossed paths in real life and writing life (you...
