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Daringly Honest Thoughts About God, Life and People


What Self-Harm and Passover Have in Common
This post contains graphic images. If you or someone you know are locking yourself in the bathroom and making little cuts on your sweet...
Apr 22, 20165 min read


Parenting Advice from Hell
(Update: This was written several years ago; I now have only one teenager left. And yes, the following is truer than ever.) This spring I...
Feb 7, 20163 min read


So You Had a Bad Dad
I can imagine some who read my annual Father’s Day posts on social media may feel slighted in the Daddy-hood department. Of course you...
Jun 15, 20142 min read


On Being a Helicopter Mom of Free-Range Kids
(This post was written when my girls were small; half of them have left the nest and the other half are flapping their wings. I don't...
Oct 7, 20133 min read


What Do You Do with Fifteen "Free Minutes?"
The other night I was waiting for dinner to finish cooking and realized I had fifteen unspoken-for minutes to do with as I chose. Too...
Apr 12, 20132 min read


How an Eggnog Disaster Saved My Relationship with My Daughter
Recently a friend was describing to me one of her saddest childhood memories. Every day she’d come home from school to an empty house and...
Jan 4, 20133 min read
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