Seeking the light and playful

Today I had lunch with a woman that I haven’t seen in a couple of years. It’s totally my fault. I started working at a local church and the time I had free to meet with her and study Greek fell away. But today we met to talk about writing and the weird things that […]

Photos of the week

Taking pictures of my regular life is a practice that I continue to develop. I love candids of my family, quick snaps of food that we cook together now that the boys are old enough to help, markers of our friends and adventures. I do my best to keep photos of people’s faces off the […]

Two collected works by Ursula K. Le Guin

I recently finished The Language of the Night and The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin. The Language of the Night is an assembly of UKLG’s speeches and essays about fantasy, science fiction, and writing.1 This version of the essays was updated with notes that Le Guin made on […]

The kitchen

The kitchen is the center of embodied life. Here I fix my coffee in a quiet morning before I tackle translating some Greek. I water my plants and watch my children play in the backyard. Boys sit at the bar and create, or learn to chop vegetables and make cookies. I talk to close friends […]

The Meaning of Singleness book not-review

I’d like to start writing a paragraph or two about each book as I finish reading it. First up-The Meaning of Singleness by Danielle Treweek. Last night, I finally finished The Meaning of Singleness by Danielle Treweek. She is an Australian and an Anglican who wrote her Ph.D dissertation on singleness. That dissertation became this […]

I finished my MDiv

Earlier this month, my husband and I flew to California and I walked across the stage at Fuller Theological Seminary’s commencement. I had wrapped up classes a week earlier and felt profoundly grateful that the timeline had worked out where I finished right before graduation. The ceremony brought a closure and a celebration to all […]

Lynchburg Favorites

I can walk out my door, cross two neighborhood roads, walk down the edge of a neighbor’s yard and be on the edge of Camp Kum-Ba-Yah, 50 acres of woods and trails between the main road and the elementary school. If there is anything that makes me feel like I live in a fairy tale, […]