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Answering the Call
I got home from Lake Geneva on Sunday and I’m still not totally back to normal. In a good way.I spent the weekend at Covenant Harbor with a group of women, and the theme was God’s calling in our lives and the people He puts around us to help us hear it and say yes.… Read more
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I Didn’t Expect This to Work
21 days ago I stepped back from social media, mostly just hoping for some quiet. I didn’t have a big goal beyond that. I just wanted room to hear something other than noise. Looking back now, I think it worked better than I expected it to. The biggest shift was how present I found myself… Read more
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21 Days of Quiet
My church is doing a 21 day fast right now, and when I sat down to think about what I actually needed to step away from, social media was the answer before I even finished asking myself the question. It’s not that social media is bad. It’s that it’s loud, and I have a lot… Read more
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Famous and Still Good
I’ve been putting off writing this post because I keep hoping if I wait long enough it won’t be true. Dolly Parton passed away this week, and even though I never met her, it feels like losing someone who was actually in my life. Here’s the thing about Dolly — she was famous for the… Read more
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Grateful Doesn’t Feel Big Enough
Sunday was our children’s pastor’s last Sunday with us, and I’ve been sitting with it ever since. For the past three years I’ve had the privilege of helping her with the kids program — assisting with Sunday school, showing up for Wednesday evening kids’ fun, volunteering with the annual VBS, observing Aria participate in the… Read more
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The Friendship That’s Older Than the Kids
We just got back from five days in the Boston area with my friend of 28 years, and I am equal parts wiped out and full. We flew in very late Wednesday night and hit the ground running — literally started with her son’s preschool graduation the next morning, which, come on, preschool graduations are… Read more
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Sand, Smores, and a Dog Who Ran With a Chair
We just got back from four days of glamping with Oma and Pop, and I’m still finding sand in places sand should not be. Aria and I stayed in a cabin, my parents brought the RV, and honestly the whole setup worked better than I expected. There’s something about everyone having their own space but… Read more
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Camp Behind the Scenes
Six weeks. That’s how long the camp actually ran. I started planning it in February. I don’t think most parents dropping their kids off in June had any idea that “camp” started for me on a random Tuesday in the dead of winter, hunched over a spreadsheet trying to figure out group rosters before I… Read more
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My First Trip to King Spa Niles (and Why I’m Already Planning My Next One)
I finally did it. After hearing people talk about King Spa for what feels like years, I made the trip out to the Niles location with my friend Laurel and honestly? I get it now. I get the hype. If you’ve never been, King Spa is a Korean spa with a whole circuit of pools,… Read more
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Can We Just Be Friends First?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how fast we label things. Two people start talking, there’s some chemistry, a few good conversations happen, and suddenly everyone involved — including the two people — has decided this is either A Thing or Not A Thing. There’s no in-between anymore. No “let’s just see who this… Read more
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