Made Frank

This is not the post I intended to write for today. In fact, I had something light-hearted, more oriented toward Thanksgiving, type of thing. Like a ham recipe or something. But that is not what is coming out so, seize the moment I suppose. I’m just gonna get to it. The moment is this for […]

My boys have been attending some sort of Preschool/Parent’s Day Out program for several years. Honestly, since they were a year old. At that age they would go for one day a week. For a long while I felt this odd guilt and shame about it. Probably not for the reasons you think. A little […]

Happy first week of Fall. To start this post, I feel like I have to make a confession. A couple months back I wrote this post on how I survive summer. I might have said something about summer being my favorite. My friend Jess called me out last week, and I realized she’s right. No, […]

Way back in early February, I wrote a double post on my word of the year process. About how I had been a skeptic but felt like my word found me. Part One told the story of reading my Bible and the story of Isaac digging wells. He kept getting run off and finally dug […]

I’ve been sitting here at the coffee shop for the last three hours. My weekly writing block. I have a very generous husband who attempts to give me this kind of time as close to weekly as possible. We trade. He gets a half day, usually on Saturday mornings to work, and then I get […]