“There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” –Leonard Cohen, selected poems, 1956-1968 In three years, I’ve lost my Mom, transitioned to my full-time faculty dream job at Wake Tech, and published three books. Then 2020 hit. Like all of us, I’m …
My best friend Lindsay would have turned 37 this week. She also would have embraced every witty Hurricane Florence reference. This is because behind the scenes, Lin’s mother was known to us as the red-leather Thriller jacket-wearing “Sister Mary Florence.” Hence the jokes would be flo-ing (see …
My Wake Tech Community College students are obsessed with Friends. Not their real-life buddies, but the sitcom, whose 236 episodes dominated American TV from 1994 to 2004. Though Friends displays the kind of homogeneity younger millennials and Generation Z rail against—it’s an all-white, heterosexual, middle-class, …
On Wednesday, December 20th, 2017, I began a 12-day social media sabbath. I committed to my fast publicly, posting this photo and status update to all my accounts. Then I logged off. Ten minutes in, I reached for my phone, stopping short of pulling up …
Here is it, y’all: the cover for my second book, For Sabbath’s Sake: Embracing Your Need for Rest, Worship, and Community (Upper Room Books). For Sabbath’s Sake will be released October 2017. The first draft is complete, and you can preview FREE sabbath content this month at My Quiet …
In Saffron Cross, I wrote about my husband’s morning devotional practice, a routine stemming from his service as a Hindu monk and priest. It wasn’t until I met Fred that I began to discern what such a practice might look like for me, and when …