I am not officially a writer.  I am a blogger.  So, I don’t know if I can technically be diagnosed with writer’s block.  If I am qualified to have it, then I do.  It isn’t fun.  In fact it is the mental equivalent of constipation of the bowels. 
I sit down.  Open up my laptop and [...]

I know I am supposed to love my neighbors.  I just don’t know how. I have been wrestling for months with how to build a community outside my front door.  We are generally a friendly bunch.  We all crowd out into the street during disasters or tornado sirens.  (Except for me.  I am in the bathtub [...]

Hi.  You don’t know me and I don’t know you.  Still, I have been watching you. 
Not in a creepy way!  Just noticing you and praying for you.  See, I know how hard it is to walk into a gym.  Everybody looks like the cover models for Men’s Health or Women’s Fitness.  TTTH.  Tanned. Toned. Totally hot.  [...]

Before I had a house full of sons, I didn’t give that much thought to gender differences.  I grew up with a brother and cousin that lived a quarter of a mile down the road.  Less if you cut through the woods, although I wasn’t that brave.  Sisters were a marvel to me. Another girl to [...]

You know that little voice in your head.  No, not that one.  The other one.  The voice that pipes up when faced with a situation that clearly looks dangerous, uncomfortable or defaming?  It sounds much like your own.  Except two octaves higher.  Yes.  That one.  The dialog sounds something along the lines of the following, [...]

This year I want to run.  Without worrying who is looking and what they might be thinking.
This year I want to see what is right.  Not what is wrong.
This year I want to encourage more.  Complain less.
This year I want to play Indian Jones Lego adventure more than I did last year.  I want to [...]