When You Deserve Detention

When You Find Yourself Within Striking Distance of Justice

Finding Freedom in Chaos

    I don’t know if any of you have noticed but the world is a weird place to be right now.  

    Everyone has a big opinion about everything *backed by Facebook science*.  It’s impossible literally to know how to breathe without freaking someone out. Meeting in person has become challenging so we moved to our online spaces for some connection and that turned into an anxiety minefield, between the news and the opinions and fighting.  

You Were Never In Control

How Worship and Praise Can Change Your Life

I love, love, love music.

  I love many kinds of music.  Music is powerful in many different ways.  It makes us feel things.  Some songs make us weep.  They can make us feel powerful.  They can make us need to dance, or groan with embarrassment.  They help us remember things-be real, how many of us have to sing the Alphabet Song to remember where a letter is?  Songs can remind us of a moment in time and bring it back like we are right there. 

Stop Melting Rings and Start Making Art: What we can learn about friendship from art.

Hallmark Won't Make a Movie About This One: Words of hope for hard Holidays

            I don't know about you, but this Thanksgiving was not what I expected. 

We're Not That Cool (Why We Need Friends).

How to Change the World by Scrubbing the Toilet

               I have lived a life in the past few years that has felt pulled in many different directions and has left me feeling like I'm constantly running behind.  I feel less like a shiny dime and more like a raggedy teddy bear that has been dropped in a mud puddle and is missing an eye.  I have a heart that wants to help people and I also have a huge list of things that just need to get done. 

When Superheroes Fight

            My deep and fiercely nerdy love of much of sci-fi is thanks to my Dad.