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Jan 15, 2024
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Five Years Later
On heartbreak and the healing that comes on the other side
Jan 16
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Connecting in 2026
My word for the new year
Jan 1
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It Was Everything I Wanted
My new teaching position was everything I wanted, but still required an adjustment
Dec 29, 2025
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So, Was I Intentional in 2025?
How did I do?
Dec 22, 2025
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Taking My Place in the Legacy
Mar 19, 2024
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Why I Chose to Self-Publish My First Book
Jan 23, 2023
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Don't Tell Me You're a Christian
Feb 14, 2025
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I Pledge Allegiance to...Texas?
Jan 26, 2024
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The Future I Want for My Children
"Better" isn't good enough
Dec 12, 2025
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Texas Will Forever Be a Part of Us
And most days, I'm glad that is the case
Dec 5, 2025
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Can We Let People Evolve?
Believing that people can change and giving them grace when they do so is essential for maintaining our own humanity
Nov 28, 2025
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A Time of Pressure and Relief
The difficulty in reconciling much needed healing with new challenges
Nov 24, 2025
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What's a Purity Culture Kid to Do?
My 90s teen self is having a really hard time reconciling with the current timeline of events
Nov 21, 2025
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Always the Good Girl
What do you do when your understanding of "right" and "wrong" shifts?
Nov 14, 2025
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Relinquishing Control
As parents, letting go and letting our children grow is harder than it looks
Nov 7, 2025
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What If the Pro-Life Movement Had Focused on Abundance Instead?
It's time to honestly talk about how a well-meaning movement to save lives was hijacked to destroy US liberal democracy
Nov 1, 2025
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Shifting Sand
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It Was Everything I Wanted
My new teaching position was everything I wanted, but still required an adjustment
Dec 29, 2025
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A Time of Pressure and Relief
The difficulty in reconciling much needed healing with new challenges
Nov 24, 2025
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We Move to Texas
And it wasn't without challenges
Oct 27, 2025
Taking a Call to a Strange Land
How we ended up in Texas
Sep 22, 2025
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Settling On, Not Settling In
We finally become church members, but the relationship is tenuous
Aug 25, 2025
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Pulled in Different Directions
After years of questions, several events spark a true deconstruction process
Jul 21, 2025
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On the Journey
Reflections on middle age, family, faith, citizenship, and travel
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Build Community
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Apr 9, 2025
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My review of Becoming the Pastor's Wife
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Mar 18, 2025
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Are we in the furnace?
A recording from Sarah Styf's live video
Feb 27, 2025
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Help Support Your Favorite Writers By Telling People They Exist
And also some survey questions to help me figure out what project I'm doing next.
Feb 17, 2025
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Some changes coming to my blog
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Jan 31, 2025
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What a week...and I didn't post it on social media
A recording from Sarah Styf's live video
Jan 26, 2025
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Some additional thoughts on social media
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Jan 26, 2025
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My thoughts on Ghosted and telling our stories
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Jan 19, 2025
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Campfire Stories
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Turkey Run State Park
Summer camping trip 2024
Jun 19, 2024
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Indiana Dunes
Memorial Day pictures 2024
May 27, 2024
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Beware of Venomous Snakes
A story that didn't make it into my camping memoir
Apr 25, 2024
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Campsgiving 2023
We give Campsgiving a try in Michigan
Dec 3, 2023
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Our Summer Vacation 2022
A visual summary of our travels
Jul 27, 2022
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Our Family Trip to Harpers Ferry National Historic Site
We took a step back into history
Jul 20, 2022
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A Day Trip to Valley Forge National Historic Park
What we saw when we explored the place where Washington's troops spent a cold winter
Jul 13, 2022
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Our Family Trip to Independence National Historic Park
What we saw in a few hours in the birthplace of the United States
Jul 6, 2022
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