This time last year I was stuck in Atlanta hoping with all hope that I'd be joining the team I was traveling with to Uganda on a storytelling trip with Sole Hope.  Remember that?  I had passport issues and ended up watching the team leave me there all by myself in the Hartsfield International Airport.  And the 24 hours that followed had us all (myself included) on the edge of … [Read more...]

I had to make a spot to sit on the sofa in my living room this morning.  Even sitting here cross-legged, computer on my lap, my knee is crammed into a tupperware bin of boy clothes that no longer fit one kid and are still too big for the other.  Boxes are piled half the distance to the ceiling all around me, and I keep wishing that I had rolled up the living room rug before … [Read more...]

They’re knocking at my door.  Standing on the doorstep, rapping and tapping at first from outside…in the world around me. Lately they come banging with wadded fist on the entry to my own house. “Little pig, little pig, let me in” I stand on the other side of the division separating me from the huffing and puffing…standing and wondering which house I’m living in. The culture … [Read more...]

So much has happened in the past month.  It has been enough to make my head spin.  It has spun and whirled and the Christmas season has come and gone, and to be honest, I felt flown right through the month of December. And some parts of the season stuck firm and deep in my bones, and some parts of the life around me have felt like a cutting of flesh...painful and hard. … [Read more...]