If You Only Read One… You Don’t Need More Talent or Time by Glennon Doyle Melton You, the one without time or talent, you are the one. Write, paint, dance as a public service to our human family. Be a servant with your art. Don’t use it to say “Here I am!” Use it to say “Here we are….
Love me some four-day-old itty bittiness… Welcome home, Joy! (If you missed Joy’s birth story, you can see it here)
I was going to write this post last year but, by the time it occurred to me, all of you had already taken back-to-school photos of your people. Hopefully I’m catching most of you in time for this year. As for everyone else? I’m sorry but I don’t feel bad even a little bit. Summer has been over for you…
I answered Kristen’s call at 5:45 AM on Thursday and was at the Lindstedt’s house by 6:05. We left fifteen minutes later with their doula, Tiffanie, and raced to beat the baby to the hospital (which was 20 miles away) while Jordan’s mom stayed at home with Judah. Kristen and Jordan got out of the car at 6:54,…
I checked my ordinary life at Ms. Svoboda’s classroom door on the first day of 8th grade, and I haven’t seen it since. Her English class syllabus was two words long, stapled in big letters next to the clock: Carpe Diem. She asked us to tell her what that meant, and I didn’t have a clue….
