Chapter Two

Friday was my last day at my job. Quitting wasn’t as hard as I always thought it would be, primarily because my boss had sold the place a couple months ago and after that, things weren’t quite the same. Whenever she told me they were selling, I knew that, after two years, it was time for me to go. Where? I still don’t know. For now, that’s right here—piecing together emails and stories and, ultimately, my life. I spent a lot of time thinking and praying and trying not to think and to rely on...

Over the course of January and February, and the first few days in March, I did a deep dive into Proverbs 31. I’ve avoided doing any kind of study on it for a while now, and I don’t really know why. I guess it feels so controversial, being about gender roles, or simply so trite. After all, somewhere along the way, we reduced Proverbs 31 to tote bags and MLM schemes. That’s a fair turnoff, in my opinion. So when I finally made up my mind to just dig into it, I used Proverbs 31 as kind of a...

There’s no light quite like winter’s. When all the world is swathed in white and the sun beats down from the open sky, setting the snow alight. Even at dawn’s first flush, everything glows—the ground, the roof, the hoods of our trucks and the mesh of our trampolines. It seems so wrong. How could our neck of the woods, with its dozens of downed trees and piles of limbs, with its scraggly, dying vegetation, with its washed-out dirt roads and ditches, look so beautiful? Because even in the...

Hey hey hey, folks! Long time, no see. 🤭 I took a little unannounced hiatus from my newsletter and a few other online things during July and August in an attempt to focus on and finish my current WIP. Suffice to say, I have not finished said project, but I have made significant progress and I'm able to jump back in to my usual proceedings feeling somewhat satisfied with the events of the summer. But I'll talk about that later on my blog. Now, I want to jump right in to this month's...

I usually start out my monthly newsletters with something like “Lately, I’ve been thinking about [insert topic here]” or “Such-and-such happened recently, which got me thinking,” and I’ll proceed to write about what’s been on my mind or heart that week. Well, my mind feels a wee bit empty today. 😅 Not because I haven’t been thinking, but because I feel like I’ve already expressed all my thoughts—in other posts and devotionals, on my podcast, ranting to my sister when she’s trying to go to...