“Happy birthday, Dad. Wherever you are.”

Guest Post: Erich Miller This year's theme is "Connect," and I am honored to share this story by my college friend, Erich Miller. If you'd like to write a guest post, see details above. The awareness that it would have been my dad’s 84th birthday bobbed in and out of my consciousness last Tuesday as … Continue reading “Happy birthday, Dad. Wherever you are.”

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I am my mother's daughter. In some ways, I look like her. In so many others, I think like her or act like her. Even some of the ways I am not like her have been influenced by my relationship with her. I learned from her to share her vision for what is good and … Continue reading More!

Good Gifts

As a high school senior, my favorite teacher taught Child Development, the most fun elective a baby-loving kid could take. Also our Senior Class Advisor, Teacher was wild and crazy in all the ways teens love: funny, with a huge laugh; refreshingly honest, telling us truths about which our parents only blushed; smart and engaging, she made … Continue reading Good Gifts

God: Our Guide

The last couple of weeks have been over-full. Most nights I've tossed myself into bed too late and slept fitfully, waking groggy with odd remnants of uneasy dreams clinging to my tousled hair. It's just a season, and God has shown up in small and big ways: a verse of the day that spoke with … Continue reading God: Our Guide