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...

It’s been a week. Professionally, I’m making a change. It’s my last week with a wonderful company in the education industry and after a couple weeks off, starting tomorrow, I’ll be entering a new industry (construction), new role, new company. I updated my LinkedIn profile and apparently aged ten years overnight. I’ve been up and down and all around with feelings and tasks. Transitioning out of a role, at least the way I do it, is intense. It takes major organizational skills

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

So now that I've decided we'll homestead creatively...what does that mean? I'm trying to develop some guiding principles for us. Whenever it's time to make a big decision, we'll make them based on the path most aligned to those principles. This is nothing new, I think people generally function like this. I just want to be as intimately familiar with, and faithful to, our family principles as I have gotten with those of the corporations I've worked with and I want to be intent

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 in hiding; struggling against myself: Question: Why am I doing this? Internal Judgement or maybe just fear of being judged by...

There are two things in particular I'm loving about our homeschool experience. First and foremost, its teaching us all a little something about being kind and flexible. I work fulltime as a commercial transactions lawyer. In english: I read and write contracts and advise the business on how to resolve and prevent contractual disputes. For me, this means work can sometimes feel unforgiving. When my clients need me they usually feel its urgent. It takes a lot of my emotional st

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

I was first introduced to this idea when I worked at a Reggio-Emilia-inspired Quaker pre-school in Durham, North Carolina; an awesome...

The day after I wrote my first blog post I told my good friend and mentor that she should check it out. She took a quick look right away...

Our first hour of school was on the road this morning. Literally. Our son was worried that the cool morning air would have been replaced...