Reflections on the Opposing Sides of Comfort.
I've been wrestling with comfort, defining and understanding a healthy approach to comfort. Google comfort, and you are likely to find quotes and articles about stepping out of your comfort zone in...
A New Perspective On Creativity
The word creative was not a word I ever considered when identifying myself. I am not spontaneous or easygoing, a talented artist, a musician, or a poet. Instead, I am structured, a...
A Summer of Growing Pains
The other day I was thinking about how nice it would be if we could flip a switch to change the season. One moment it would be clearly all things summer, summer...
When Life is Not Fine, and Finding Beauty Difficult.
"How are you doing?" she asked. "I'm fine," I replied.But, I wasn't fine, and afterward, I realized I was simply giving a standard answer. After all, as Shauna Niequist said, "I've been...
Learning to Live a Perfectly Imperfect Life.
The first house we owned was a 1950's three-bedroom, one-bath, nine hundred square foot home that needed some love. And we loved that home for almost ten years. During the time we...
When Did Enough Stop Being Enough?
My musings these days have been swirling around a question of enough and my pursuit of its answer. When did enough stop being enough? It seems as if there is never enough...
