Previously posted under TinyLetter Hello, friends! I’d like to be honest and tell you that I’ve had a rough draft of a newsletter sitting for a week. Anyone with a writer’s bone will tell…

Previously on TinyLetter “Good morning or afternoon … wherever in the day this letter catches you. I know, two newsletters in one week. I’ll make this one short and sweet, like a squeeze-y hug.…

Originally published on TinyLetter You may have heard the wise old adage “Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and expecting the rat to die.” This little piece of wisdom has been altered in various…

Time is, of course, doing its steady work on every object ever made. This complex relationship between the maker, an emotionally invested object, and the growing distance between them is not new, only rediscovered…

I’m going to be very transparent:I have no idea what I’m doing! I guess that’s the thing about starting New Things – they are little mysteries of their own that kind of unfold as…

Where we begin matters. The beginning of our lives shapes who we are; it gives us the lens through which we will see and the value we will assign everything. We’ve heard the beginning…

I am now thirteen years removed from high school. While it very much falls under the term “many moons ago,” the memories from high school have not left me. There is something so unique…

We have now lived in our little rental home for five months, and it has been such a roomy relief from our close quarters in Chicago. While we loved every place we lived in…

During this strange time of isolation from others, I have been thinking a lot about the idea that “we were made from community for community.” For those of us that believe and follow the…