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Connecting in 2026
My word for the new year
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It Was Everything I Wanted
My new teaching position was everything I wanted, but still required an adjustment
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So, Was I Intentional in 2025?
How did I do?
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The Future I Want for My Children
"Better" isn't good enough
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Taking My Place in the Legacy
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Why I Chose to Self-Publish My First Book
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Don't Tell Me You're a Christian
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I Pledge Allegiance to...Texas?
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Texas Will Forever Be a Part of Us
And most days, I'm glad that is the case
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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
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A Time of Pressure and Relief
The difficulty in reconciling much needed healing with new challenges
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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
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Always the Good Girl
What do you do when your understanding of "right" and "wrong" shifts?
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Relinquishing Control
As parents, letting go and letting our children grow is harder than it looks
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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
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Does Anyone Else Remember Reformation Parties?
Halloween has always been a little weird for me, but I think we would all be better off if we just let it be what it is
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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
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A Time of Pressure and Relief
The difficulty in reconciling much needed healing with new challenges
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We Move to Texas
And it wasn't without challenges
Taking a Call to a Strange Land
How we ended up in Texas
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Settling On, Not Settling In
We finally become church members, but the relationship is tenuous
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Pulled in Different Directions
After years of questions, several events spark a true deconstruction process
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On the Journey
On the Journey
Reflections on middle age, family, faith, citizenship, and travel
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Build Community
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8:38
My review of Becoming the Pastor's Wife
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8:34
Are we in the furnace?
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14:34
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.
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12:45
Some changes coming to my blog
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9:59
What a week...and I didn't post it on social media
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5:29
Some additional thoughts on social media
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12:50
My thoughts on Ghosted and telling our stories
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Campfire Stories

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Turkey Run State Park
Summer camping trip 2024
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Indiana Dunes
Memorial Day pictures 2024
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Beware of Venomous Snakes
A story that didn't make it into my camping memoir
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4:52
Campsgiving 2023
We give Campsgiving a try in Michigan
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2:54
Our Summer Vacation 2022
A visual summary of our travels
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2:22
Our Family Trip to Harpers Ferry National Historic Site
We took a step back into history
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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
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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
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