Grace + Common Sense.

After learning what covetousness truly means, I purposefully focused on what I’m grateful for throughout November. Maybe this only happens to me? Ready to merge lanes toward the exit, I flick on my blinker. I need to move over but the car beside me copies my speed. I speed up a little bit and they…

Here are all the books I’ve explored this year–with a little blurb about each. Scarlett First book of the year (started during Christmas break 2022). I had no idea Gone with the Wind had sequel so I had to check it out. I’ve not really ever been a Scarlett O’Hara fan but this book revealed…

The birth story of baby number three. The roads were dark and empty, illuminated only by street lamps. It’s 11p, surreal, and I’m sleepy. I cannot quite process that we’re doing this: my husband and I were driving to the hospital on Thursday, September 28, for my first-ever induction. Twelve hours earlier I had met…

When I was just a child, I’d get real funny around babies and other little kids. I’d watch them explore their world with a rising sense of resentment in my chest. I’d even feel a momentary relief–or something–if they’d begin to be sad. It’s as if I resented them for thinking they could feel loved…