I got no resolutions. But man do I have a full heart. I will not bore you with a laundry list of things I'm grateful for; let me just...

I don't have a very good poker face. I spoke these truths. Directly. Politely. To my boss. Do you know what happened next?

Spoiler alert... this post is about nothing. When we finally got to a point where we could imagine our house a home, I remember walking...

I started reading a book and I think I'm going to like it. Here's my invitation to read along with me. It's a book that, very close to...

I don't mean to sound like a commercial, but I just have to share this because I think it will resonate with a lot of people! Before I...

I got the chance to grow up in this country because my parents wanted to get away from political and economic persecution and ensure I...

The first time I saw a real gun it was nested in a beautiful wooden box held out for me to see by a retired CIA agent who at the time was in his late 60s. He was my father's boss, later mentor, and now friend. My dad gave him a sideways look and asked him to put it away before I really had time to realize what was happening; I was around 9 years old. Between this experience and my next experience, my high school sweetheart would call me from Virgina Tech to let me know he was

There's a big secret I like to pretend I keep from myself. I can't do everything. Sure, I've always been blessed with the ability to do...

I’ve been craving Hamilton. Weird, right? Craving a musical. I watched the film version a couple of years ago and fell in love. I cringed at the thought of spending two-plus hours in front of a screen watching something I’ve already seen but this past weekend, while driving back to Live Oak from Miami, I listened to the soundtrack. I listened, I laughed, I cried, and I was in awe. I won’t pretend to know why Lin-Manuel Miranda decided to write that story. Maybe he wanted to s

We had another amazing conversation in the car yesterday. This time: 1) how did they put another heart in our neighbor? and 2) How does God make a soul? We'd been in the car less than five minutes when our recently-turned-6-year-old just casually mentioned that he heard (thanks, Abi) our neighbor was very sick but was lucky enough to get a heart from a young girl who had died. Our middle kiddo immediately responded with: "What?" This is typical of our baby girl. She heard him