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Here’s a look back at a post from this time last year, before my blog was public: Autumn in northern Minnesota is simply spectacular. My morning walks are graced with…
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Most of the world is under a mask mandate right now. Some view it as a commonsense way to help slow the spread of Covid. Some wear a mask as…
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We rambled through the forest, sliding on pine needles and scrambling over granite, heading nowhere except to explore the beauty of the day and the mountains we lived in. We…
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I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —I took the one less traveled by, And that…
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If not for Ben… I might have continued my education. If not for Ben, I might have become a missionary, a counselor or a linguist. If not for Ben, I…
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We are living in a time of anxiety. As we try to make plans and figure out what life will look like now, our thoughts churn in the background, sapping…
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“A Godward life is a life lived for the sake of seeing and savoring and showing God in all things.” – John Piper
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I wrap my jacket around me and step out into the night, quieting the screen door’s creak for those sleeping. Over dew-damp grass, lit by stars I walk, to the…
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I did my best at the time. As white parents in a white town, we were tasked with giving our multiracial children tools with which to form their identities. So…
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“These people!” I fumed after reading yet another rant on Facebook. “Why is it so hard to just be kind?” In my anger I hammered out the perfect blog post…







