It's always fun to hear someone wants to share a GoingThere story with my readers. It is a brave thing to do—pulling back the curtain and stepping into a potentially uncomfortable conversation. But, Lyli Dunbar is a brave and classy woman, and she clearly gets it honestly. Enjoy this GoingThere …
What If Grief Opens Us Up? | Rare Bird, a Giveaway
Crammed into my mother-in-law's condo, our family created makeshift beds and regressed to sleeping partnerships we hadn't utilized in decades. My son slept in the king-sized bed with my husband, my daughter on a couch on one side of the fireplace, and I claimed a day bed on the other side. My …
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Who Knew? | An Incourage Celebration
In 2008, when I started blogging, I thought I was simply taking up a hobby and creating a space to find my footing in a pretty yucky season of my life. If you're a blogger, or if you're a blog reader, you know how one click leads to another and, before you know it, you've met people you never would …
What Ferguson Taught Us
Since coming home from Ferguson, and with everything we learned there, and everything we've been trying to unravel since we made our way home, we have slowly been building words together, and piling them up like an Ebenezer. We aren't the same people we were when we left home and boarded flights to …
When Going There Means Going There
One thing I need to say about the Going There conversation is this: it's a conversation I haven't mastered. I don't always get it. Like the rest of us, I'm learning as I go. The other day, I said I would try to answer this question I offered to you: “I see what’s happening in Ferguson. I don’t …
#GoingThere: What You Can Do
To say I'm surprised by the recent response to the #GoingThere conversation would be an understatement. I am grateful to you all. It seems as if the #GoingThere conversation is here to stay for a while, and so I'm going to accept that for what it is and continue to make this a safe place for …