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a prayer for the beginning of school. 25 Aug 2013 | 09:53 pm
Ready or not, our students are back to school tomorrow. It seems especially cruel to start on a Monday. For one thing, it would be nice to have one more day to get ready. And for another, those kids a...
saving my life. 23 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
On Thursday, I had one of those looooooooong days that teachers have at the beginning of the school year (open house is exhausting, y’all) and I knew I wouldn’t be home before Atticus went to bed. I w...
wonder woman. 21 Aug 2013 | 02:59 pm
As a child, I had a vague feeling that some of the women in my life were kind of pushy about Wonder Woman. They really liked Wonder Woman. I liked her, too, but I preferred The Greatest American Hero ...
what I have been reading (back-to-school edition). 19 Aug 2013 | 05:58 pm
Tomorrow we go back to school, so I have been reading like a maniac for the past few days. Let’s do this! Finding God in a Bag of Groceries by Laura Lapins Willis (via NetGalley) This is a book abou...
continuing the dream. 17 Aug 2013 | 06:45 pm
It has been a lovely rainy summer for us. We didn’t get to the pool quite as much as we would have liked, but we made the best of it. Atticus switched to a big bed and stopped using his pacifier and g...
reading the bible with my toddler: jesus quiets the storm 14 Aug 2013 | 10:29 pm
Jesus was inside the boat, sleeping with his head on a pillow. The followers went and woke him. They said, “Teacher, don’t you care about us? We are going to drown!” Jesus stood up and gave a command...
ten books (times seven). 11 Aug 2013 | 09:54 pm
A friend asked me for ten books that I think everyone should read. I came up with seventy. Instead of failing at this task, I prefer to think I am an overachiever. I have broken them down into categor...
saving my life. 10 Aug 2013 | 02:07 am
Oh, hey, I had a piece at Art House America’s blog yesterday about canning tomatoes with my grandma and you should go read it. — Did you see this post on Buzzfeed about being stuck between Generatio...
consider the birds. 8 Aug 2013 | 02:58 am
I cannot muster up even a tiny bit of interest in birds. A few minutes ago, Atticus asked me to come to the sunroom because a bird was tweeting. What I wanted to tell him–but didn’t–is that birds are ...
this is a space where something different happens. 6 Aug 2013 | 02:51 pm
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: North Carolina now allows guns in bars and at funerals! I have friends all over the map when it comes to gun control, which is interesting to me because I live in a b...
