Today marks the TWENTIETH episode at The Messy Table (insert allllll the praise-hand emojis)! I want to start by shouting a gigantic THANK YOU to all of my amazing guests who have bravely opened up their lives and souls on [...]
Happy November friends! I'm super giddy today, not only because the leaves are exploding into all sorts of chestnut/cinnamon/auburn hues, but mostly because Divina Bruss is joining me for Episode #18 at The Messy Table and I JUST LOVE IT [...]
My eight-year-old daughter, Hallie, still can’t wrap her arms even halfway around the giant oak in our yard. Our little farmhouse was built in 1930—the first in this square mile—many, many moons ago. She looks like a pint-sized ant standing [...]
I was picking weeds yesterday—knees in the dirt, earth under my fingernails. Grumbling to myself, I muttered something like, "Didn't I just do this?” Honestly, this isn’t an uncommon thought running wild through my brain. More like a broken record [...]
Stuck. Numb. Worried. Fearful. Have you ever found yourself lost in a whirling sea of crashing emotions? Believe me, you're not alone. Today my beautiful friend, Whitney Reid—a follower of Jesus, physician assistant, dentist's wife, and mama of three—is joining [...]
Sometimes life feels less like a daring adventure and more like an assembly line. Wash the clothes. Pack the lunches. Make the deadline. Gas the car. Ride the treadmill. Scratch the to-do list. Buy the groceries. Wrangle the inbox. Change [...]
It’s a new year—with new dreams, new challenges, and (like it or not) a new president. As we approach the end of January my gym is still decently full, which I happen to find bittersweet (sweet because people are taking [...]
Parenthood is one of those things we all want to get right and finish well. But, goodness gracious, the bar is set awfully high with gobs of unachievable Pinterest goals. And Christmas is no different—if you haven’t noticed. I could scribble [...]
I'd always wanted to scuba dive through a sunken ship and, several years ago, it happened. Derek and I rolled backwards off the side of a small boat into the salty Caribbean. We adjusted our gear, gave each other the ready [...]
I posted this picture on Instagram last weekend… It was an iPhone pic. Nothing fancy. We were in our yard, about to go to dinner. The caption read: “This kid melts me. He picked out his own clothes (like Daddy’s) for [...]
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