It’s so easy to just want to get past this year. It has been a tough year for the world, and it seems to have been a tough year for a lot of people personally (including us). So I’m trying to end it by looking at the good…and hoping for even better next year. Also,…
Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America by Diane Roberts As a college football lover, this book has been on my list since it came out, and I thought fall would be the perfect time for it. It really is a great book about football and all the issues surrounding it: gender, sexuality, abuse,…
Every year, the older I get, the more I appreciate Advent. Every year I love the grief and the hope more, the reminders of joy, the candles, the sometimes somber hymns. I loved Advent as a little girl because I loved sitting with my family and lighting the Advent candles, every week another one until…
Objectively, life has been difficult lately. We have joked that moving cursed us, but sometimes I feel there is actually something to that. If our lives looked too good to be true back in the summer (beach trip! UK trip! new house!), don’t worry; the universe has come back for us. Since we have moved…
Last week, two days after the election (so talk about terrible timing emotionally), I found out I had had a miscarriage. I was 9, creeping up on 10, weeks pregnant. It apparently happened around 7.5 weeks, or just a couple of days after my first doctor’s visit. That same afternoon I went in to the…