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Daringly Honest Thoughts About God, Life and People


Four Things You Are Not, and One Thing You Are (How to Define Yourself)
It’s a Saturday afternoon and I’m standing before an overcrowded room of sleepy moms at nap time. Before I launch into my speech outline,...
Mar 25, 20142 min read


Get Over Yourself When You're Talked About Behind Your Back
Some time ago, during the course of a conversation, a friend proceeded to tell me something she’d heard someone say about me behind my...
Mar 5, 20142 min read


He Told Me I'd Be Famous, and He Was Wrong (Embracing Intentional Obscurity and Book Promotion)
image credit: sonoma.edu Just before my book came out last year, a well-known person who’d read it sent me a personal email and said,...
Feb 21, 20143 min read


Why I Don’t Want My Daughters to Have High Self Esteem
Because sometimes those with “high self esteem” have low others-esteem. Because if my girls grow up to think highly of themselves but are...
Dec 16, 20132 min read


Why I’m Not Mad at God (Thoughts on Unemployment)
(This is a blog post from years ago, during an extended time of unemployment for my husband.) Yesterday. Rain, grey skies, and a phone...
Jun 20, 20132 min read


So You Don’t Have it All Together
Are you one of us who doesn’t have it all together? And do you have people in your life who seem to accentuate the fact when they come...
Apr 15, 20132 min read
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