What Is Normal?
What is "normal?" I don’t use the word normal very much anymore. It’s just one of the many ways my language has changed in the years since Penny was diagnosed…
What is "normal?" I don’t use the word normal very much anymore. It’s just one of the many ways my language has changed in the years since Penny was diagnosed…
How do I care for someone in pain? People have asked me this question. I’ve asked this question. And I thought it would be helpful to share advice from Katherine…
I am still trying to find a theater nearby that is showing the new film, Wildcat, directed by Ethan Hawke and starring his daughter Maya Hawke as Flannery O’Connor. I…
How do you make it through a wild weekend that includes one daughter’s dance rehearsals, another’s soccer games, your son’s performance in Hamlet, and your husband’s installation as a Head…
Apple YouTube Spotify More! How do you hold onto hope in the midst of suffering? How can we trust in the goodness of God in a world of pain? What…
My uncle sent me this photo for Mother's Day. It shows my great-grandmother (far left), my mother, and my grandmother. I love this snapshot of multiple generations gathering together to…
I’m two weeks into my new workshop, Reimagining Family Life with Disability. We have nearly 40 parents of children with disabilities who are Zooming in from across the United States—Vermont, Georgia,…
So here’s a beautiful model of how to create a space that benefits an entire community. I got to visit my friend Katie Kishore in Charlottesville last week and see…
The only power that God ever chooses to wield is the power of love. And that’s a really non-coercive, gentle, patient, kind power. It’s incredibly different from the power of…
I never thought I would be a person with bear cubs in the backyard… I could watch these little ones all day. Our life is full this time of year.…