The four people I love most spend their days inside the bricks and mortar of public school buildings. As a high school teacher, I do too....

Dear Waiting Mama, The weeping cherries I pass on my evening power-walk look like fireworks this spring. A few short years ago, these...

Photo by Drew Coffman on Unsplash Forget New Year's resolutions. Methinks we can do away with all of the grandiose ideas and even more...

I love Halloween! There, I said it. I am a Christian who delights in this pagan holiday. I know that Fright Night has some distant...

The first thing I want to say to you, reader, is thank you! Thank you for taking the time to look outside of yourself to offer comfort...

Hi Blog Friends! Mother's Day was always an especially difficult holiday for me when we were struggling with infertility. You too? That's...

𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗰𝗿𝘆? 𝗔 mission 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗱 up𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁...

Hey friends. This'll be quick. I will be taking a break from the blog during the winter to focus on completing the reader's companion to...

How can I support my friend/daughter/niece who is struggling to get pregnant? It is one of the most common questions people ask me.

It's easy to become consumed by the idea that our pursuit of happiness rests on the outcomes of Epic Decision 2020.

This is the new normal. Uttered by countless of us over the past six months, this phrase makes my stomach flip and my mind whirl. What...

Links that Lift Us will inspire you to live the abundant life of which Jesus spoke.

It's my birthday today and, although I am heading to the salon to get a lift from a long overdue cut and color, I don't plan to spend...

However meager the offering, I pray that these bits of wisdom mark the beginning of the long path to healing and reconciliation.

Now that I am on the other side of the TTC journey, I realize how very caught up I was in the whole thing.

"Uno!" Carolina cried as we sat on our back patio waiting for the dough to rise. Along with my Spanish teaching coworker, Rochelle, I had...

If you've felt tired and snappish lately. If the people you love most feel more like a burden than a blessing...try these 15 tips.

We need only look to Jesus, our God in human flesh, to see that faking our feelings was never part of God's plan.

My friends in my infertility and pregnancy loss support group are struggling to find the hope of Emmanuel this Christmas season. Anne is...

16 Always be joyful. 17 Never stop praying. 18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ...