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I'm writing this as summer officially comes to a close. For as long as I can remember, this particular milestone on the calendar has been a perpetual catalyst for leaving loose schedules and lazy days behind. We trade the easy ebb and flow of pool outings and camping under the stars, for the hustle …
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Once upon a time, I was scrolling through Instagram and I saw a picture of a woman floating in water. The picture was stunning, and had been taken from high above her, using a drone to capture the vastness of the ocean that surrounded her. I was mesmerized. That was the start, and a seed was planted …
My husband is a ski fanatic. I write. He skis. When I met him, if I was going to spend any time with him during Michigan's long winters, skiing was something I was going to have to embrace—and not just from the fireplace in the ski lodge with a mug of hot chocolate in my hand. Harry taught …
"Either God is big, or he isn't," Tom said. A few weekends ago, at a conference in Ohio, I got to catch up with some friends of ours from the church we attended when we lived in Pennsylvania. Our kids had been in the same youth group and it was Tom and Beth who moved away from Pennsylvania first. …
I initially met Alison right here at JumpingTandem. She started showing up in the comments and her vibe was always cheerful and positive with a certain "groundedness" that seemed to anchor her. Alison and I met in real life for the first time at—you guessed it—Laity Lodge. Then, last week when I …
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Those girls were kidnapped on April 15. It was before I turned fifty, before I went to Maui, before Easter and Good Friday. But I didn't hear about …
