Packing Up


The movers come today to put everything I own into a box. I have two thoughts on that situation: 1) I am incredibly grateful that someone else is doing the packing and 2) I am incredibly grateful that the stuff that’s really important is already safely packed away in my heart.

Hope. Someone here needs hope. So … here we go. Ten years ago today I drank my last rum & coke. Ten years ago tomorrow I woke up

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I got to do something really cool yesterday. I got to sit down with a friend and see the kids’ chapter book she’s spent the last year putting

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I have never seen so many chill teenagers and nervous adults in my life. I made a snap decision to make my way from Aberdeen, South Dakota to

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Today I’ve decided to become more like Alaina. Don’t know Alaina? Take my word for it, she’s awesome. I mean, she had a UNICORN at her birthday party,

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I’ve got a project staring me in the face. Do you have any of those? Maybe it’s a closet that needs reorganizing or a deck that needs to

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You want to feel loved? Go be a pastor at a rural church in South Dakota. It’s like stepping into a family reunion and a group hug at

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