Motherhood
Hitch Your Wagon to a Star
After I told my kids to hitch their wagons to a star, my 5-year-old grabbed a grown-up book on mindful writing and my 8-year-old reached for a tome on Ancient Rome. Maybe Emerson is sinking in.
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Stories about everything from motherhood, faith, and grief, to classical-Christian education, current events, and the writing life.
Grief & Loss Motherhood
On Loving, and Losing
Explaining death to my children after losing two friends reminded me that the unnatural severing of the human heart is our most accurate sensation — a sign we are not quite at home here.
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Three Years Gone, and Yet You're With Us
A letter to my brother on the third anniversary of his death — because depression may have won by human standards, but not by God's.
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Retroactive Grief
Watching friends send their children to college stirs a grief I didn't expect — mourning not just my mother, but the tears she never got to cry for me.
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Strasbourg Cathedral de Notre-Dame
Everything about Strasbourg's gothic cathedral draws the eye up — its light, its ancient expressions, its reminder that God is the source of all creativity.
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Nice vs. Antibes: Where's the Better View?
Stormy Antibes and sun-drenched Nice each offer their own shade of Mediterranean beauty — one cast in constant motion, the other in an edge-of-the-world calm.
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The Marvel of Mont Saint-Michel
A dream on a hill in Normandy, Mont Saint-Michel has drawn pilgrims and monks for over a thousand years. The moment you step onto its tide-washed land, you feel the divine appointment of it all.
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Streetside, Paris
All of Paris is art — from the symmetrical bliss of its streets to the scent of perfume, Vespa fumes, and crepes. If you have air in your lungs, this city will inspire you.
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A Month in France
France has such a distinct sense of place that when I leave, I miss it — its reverence for food, its tradition over profit, and the bedrock principles that no act of terror can snuff out.
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Fleeing Breast Cancer, I Found a Miracle
I scheduled my preventative double mastectomy in September to give that dreaded month a chance to redeem herself. She didn't disappoint.
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Why I Said Yes to Cancer-Preventing Surgery
After one too many MRI biopsies, I decided I wasn't taking another lap around that monstrous circle of hell. Cancer or not, I was finding a way out.
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On Being a Mom Without a Mom
Motherless mothering is its own wilderness. Without my mom's roadmap, I've had to define motherhood for myself — and teach my children about a grandmother they'll never know.
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