...yet there are the days when every street corner rounds itself into a sunlit surprise, a painting or a phrase, canoes drawn up by the...

Since we're halfway through the year, here are the best books of 2023 SO FAR, not in any particular order, but all at least an 8/10 in my...

Hey, Hey! It's Theology Thursday! This summer I'm focusing on prayer. Here's this week's thoughts: Last Thursday when I didn't do my planned post on prayer, I felt bad for not being consistent as consistency is what I'm working at being better at! But then I calmed my inconsistent self down because my reason was SO GOOD! It was because I spent the day hanging out WITH my daughter, who had just gotten home from a five week trip overseas, which came right off her semester at c

my grandpa would go on yearly fishing trips and bring home a teacup from Canada for my grandma. decorating with them makes me happy. So,...

Hey, hey! It's Theology Thursday - what could possibly be more fun? This summer, I'll be looking at the topic of prayer. Read the first post in the series here: the fastest pray-er in the [mid]west and read on for this week's thoughts: I love a good pen, great notebook and a list. I do, however, have this little tickle in my brain that says if I mess up the page with a spelling error, weirdly written "e", or wrong pen, I have to start over. Then I get stuck because if I tear

We moved about a year ago, and being church attenders our whole lives, finding a church was important to us, slightly above the...

My Grandpa Craig Massey was a pastor, conference speaker, counselor, and had a show on the radio where I always loved it when he said my...

Give me a time travel book and I'm happy as a character who finds her way back to the "right" universe timeline! But focus too much on...

kelly clarkson singing away: some people wait a liiiiifetime for a moment like thissss a different kelli, as in, me with messy hair,...

An interesting phenomenon happens when you‘re waiting: You have time on your hands. Your mind feels a bit scattered, you're fidgety and...

This is a story I tell my friends. It's a silly story about a time I made a decision to be myself. Not a huge, courageous story. Just a...

I have an hour of free time between errands. I head toward my favorite stop: the bookstore. I drift between genres, picking up books...