Makeunder My Life: A Life With Intention…for now

Today’s post is my contribution to the DIY Design Your Life series over at Make-Under My Life. Jess, the brains behind MML, invites her readers to take part, listing 5-7 intentions for designing their own lives “with intention.”  As previously stated, now seems a particularly apt time for it. I’ve been calling these “The Years [...]

Why Categorize? Why Lutheran?

Sometimes when I tell people I have blog, they ask “What kind of blog” I’m writing. And I’m not entirely sure how to respond. I like to think that I take this thing at least a few baby shuffles past a personal online journal… that is, sure, I write about my life, but I usually [...]

Ring Toss

It finally happened. Just shy of the two-year anniversary of the day it landed on my finger, my wedding ring has made a change of address. Poor little thing, it only needs a little breathing space — a nice place to sit and sparkle, without the necessary aid of spit, lotion, soap, oil, and hot [...]

My Mother’s Moon

Just received this beautiful little series of images in an email from Mom, along with a sweet blessing and her own  hopeful suggestion that: “‘Fools’ aren’t necessarily foolish, and that we can get what we most passionately want, if our imagination is strong enough.” Tomorrow is my Mom’s birthday, and I wish you could all [...]

Are we growing up here?

If we are, I’m not sure I like it. Like some slowly drifting scent on the wind—like cold spring that sticks in your hair, even though it’s the warmest day yet this year—I can’t shake a sense of changing things. There’s this unsettling shift from what one must do to be happy to what one [...]

Published: Everyday Prayer in Cafe E-zine

Publication Alert: Check out my short article on prayer for everyday life! (Find it at www.boldcafe.org) 7 years ago, I interned at the ELCA* headquarters just outside of Chicago. Working with the Women’s Organization and the publications staff at Lutheran Woman Today magazine, I helped to launch the first issue of Café, a brand new [...]

Things I am Afraid Of

When I started to write this post — that is, just minutes ago, when I typed the title and readied the cursor for typing — I meant to write about a little thing, an annoyance, really to most people, that has terrified me since childhood. That will have to wait till later. Because right after I [...]

Emilie Expectant

Well, I did say I’d be catching up on writing about some of that biglifechangingstuff, didn’t I? And a promise is a promise, so I hope yuo’ll forgive the longishness of this entry. But it’s important. I promise. Soooo… as you may have guessed by that none-too-cryptic blog title: I’m pregnant! I am in my [...]

Year of Gratitude #25

Once again, I’m getting behind on recording for posterity those things that make me grateful to be alive and in the company of so many wonderful people. I know, I should have all day to get it down, shouldn’t I? Ah well. No time to start again like the present, eh? This week I am [...]

Year of Gratitude #24

It’s been a hard weekend. A hard beginning to this week. I’ve been putting off writing a Year of Gratitude post—writing anything really—because I’m having a hard time keeping an even keel, much less looking on the bright side, which is the whole point of the YOG post series. That’s why it’s far past due time [...]