“It’s not always sexy to stay put, is it? In most of my church tradition, no one ever mentioned the holy work of staying.” We made several significant moves when I was a kid, back in the days before Facebook, before email, and long before kids were allowed to use the phone for long-distance phone calls. In [...]
“I have to remind myself: I can’t do everything, but I can do something.” By Daniela Schwartz Twitter: @danielatweets I grew up poor. I knew what hungry felt like—lonely and forgotten. I knew what standing in the food bank line-up felt like, my face burning in shame, praying no one from school would see me [...]
“They had come limping, wheeled, carried, ambling, knock-kneed and slow going, with ample head gear and protective padding, drooling, smiling, deadpan, screaming and yet routinely with ears to hear and eyes to see.” By Enuma Okoro | Twitter: @TweetEnuma The lingering smell in the air hinted of freshly baked apple pie and caused me to [...]
“When I take the focus off myself and sow into the lives of not just the people I love, but also complete strangers, I begin to live a bigger life.” My summer was okay. Not great—but okay. It should have been so much more. It could have been so much more. It wasn’t that I [...]
SEEKING EVE MONDAY “We all have our closets full of secrets. We are all bound by the minutiae of life. Celebrities flush toilets. Presidents brandish scars.” By Christina Crook Everybody is just like me. Me, the child of a messy family. Only a toddler when the divorce proceedings began, when the court decided to split my brothers and I in [...]
