I wasn’t going to do it. Everybody in the wedding industry has been talking about this wedding for weeks. I have smiled and I’ve shaken my head, and I’ve even rolled my eyes a few times. But yesterday, it hit me that this might be the only time in my lifetime I will get to [...]

I need new categories. “Fambly” is good. “A Restless Heart” is good. “Photography” is good. But they don’t cover all the aspects of the things I write. I think I could add “Writing” or “Observations”, and definitely I have room for “Randomnity.” Or I could just quit the whole thing altogether and stop trying to [...]

There is a reason I don’t write sometimes when I’m emotionally upheaved. As I’ve been writing my “restless heart” series about getting my heart broken, I’ve deliberately refrained from commenting on my feelings of vulnerability after I have posted an installment. But this week I’ve been a bit fuzzy, and I was only half-thinking about [...]

He says if I seek Him, I will find Him, even in a world where everyone turns from Him, where our good is worthless to Him. When the world is too much and too much in me, when God is a bandwagon and all I know is that Jesus is my righteous, He says He [...]

I began to lose my eyesight during the summer of 2003. I didn’t notice it at first. I had enough going on trying to figure out my litigation assistant job, trying to be grown-up enough to live on my own and pay my bills and live in my own place. I suppose I thought I [...]

she dances in lightly, capricious, as a little wild child not quite finished dancing with the fairies. she will grow up soon enough, up into warmer suns and deeper colors, but now she plays, exploring each moment. she becomes time rushing and slowing, flowing like her brooks falling out of ice. she sneaks in with [...]

What if I dared to live what I believe deep down, regardless of the yes or the no or the nod of approval or the expectation? What if I opened my life up to the good because I want to, not because everyone else is preaching it or saying it or doing it? What if [...]