Buen, buen camino
I have a confession: I have spiritual amnesia. It’s a selective forgetting, an involuntary loss of graces and lessons and gems from God....
A glorious, glorious life
My grandfather died yesterday. If only I could convey to you what that means to me. What it means that Bob Balkam, deeply loving and...
The littlest life-changers
I’ve just got to start with the salad. You see, this was no ordinary salad. It was the first of its kind I’d ever made. Red leaf lettuce...
A dilated heart
You know those little winks from God? Those hidden moments of sheer grace that only you can fully appreciate and rejoice in? I was the...
Here and now and forever
Two weeks felt like a lifetime. There was birth and growth and death, a marked beginning and a definite end, profound emotion and deep...
Open to life
I miss making five new friends a day. Okay, that may be an exaggeration, but the truth is, the habit of instantaneous friend-making among...
Not supposed to
I wasn’t supposed to meet Katie. My flight from New York to Madrid wasn’t supposed to turn around two hours in because of malfunctioning...
Navigating wedding season as a single woman
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Tri tri again
I did a triathlon on Sunday. (I keep wanting to say I ran a triathlon. Well, I did. But I also swam and biked it.) I signed up for it in...
Needed and needy
You know those nights you spend walking up and down the sidewalk on a quiet suburban block, cradling a fussy baby, while inside his...