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 [...]

It’s like coffee for me, the writing. It is how I wake up to my day, wake up to my life. The words flow easier in the mornings when the weight of the day hasn’t fallen on me yet, and it is here my heart awakens. I write in my quiet time, the only time [...]

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 [...]

I’ve had a little more time recently to play with design. It is the thing I can do when the barometric pressure goes wonky and my restless heart kicks into high gear. (I can almost focus on it when I have spring fever too, but come on – who accomplishes ANYTHING big on Fridays in [...]

I wake early and the words spin, circles and stories and webs. They take me round and round, and I think in words, not feelings, you know. I think of the lives behind the pictures I’ve taken, think of my own life and the way that my brand has begun to beg my identity – [...]

I think that sometimes we live what we are given to live. Our circumstances dictate our identity and our choices, and we rarely think outside the plausible. I wonder then, if we sometimes serve a God who is plausible, assuming that He is limited by the life we know. What if I choose something that [...]

I need to work crazy today, with a teething baby (oh, he is mad this morning!), and much to do. But I have thoughts to scribble while I finish my breakfast. Do you think that as a Christian, I should be MORE real, rather than less real? If my sin is truly forgiven, if there [...]