Grandfamilies: Wreckage

One Big Mess. Trabuco Canyon Road. December 2010. A quick way to learn how little you know is to begin sharing your thoughts on a topic with people. I’ve been writing about relationships in families that are both blended and extended for some time now, but a recent email from a reader sent me straight to […]


It’s All About the Agenda

  Tomorrow I leave for Mount Hermon.  Mount Hermon is Christian-writer-speak shorthand for the Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference. It’s a bona fide big deal. It’s a place that makes me sigh into my mug and whisper maybe next year. But last November I entered this contest. And the contest sponsor created a second prize just so I wouldn’t walk off empty-handed. By the […]


You Can’t Always get What You Want, Part Two

Not Too Big. Trash Can HuntingAll I wanted was a new trash can for our kitchen. My requirements seemed simple enough: it had to fit in our trash can space inside a lower cabinet and have a lid. Easy, right? Wrong.I spotted a can that looked perfect, paid for it, brought it home. It was […]


Follow the Leader

Swinging! Pride, Pain, and Perspective Last week I had two seemingly separate situations developing that required careful handling. First, I received the happy news from David Rupert, newsletter editor at TheHighCalling.Org, that The High Calling would be featuring a Godspotting post from January in its monthly roundup of notable blogs. I was honored and humbled; I […]


Follow the Leader

Swinging! Pride, Pain, and Perspective Last week I had two seemingly separate situations developing that required careful handling. First, I received the happy news from David Rupert, newsletter editor at TheHighCalling.Org, that The High Calling would be featuring a Godspotting post from January in its monthly roundup of notable blogs. I was honored and humbled; I […]