Well we had our first nuclear meltdown tonight. Bless her heart, we should have seen it coming. We had the young adult group over to our house and she was having a great time being the center of attention, and it became bedtime much too abruptly for her. She was tired and feeling crummy from […]

I’ve mentioned Twyla Tharp’s book The Creative Habit before in this blog. A friend and mentor recommended it to me as the best book on creativity that she’s come across. I think it’s excellent. One of the things she says is that sometimes when you’re blocked on something, it means you haven’t done quite enough […]

A friend of mine with an 18 month old boy is negotiating a call as a campus minister, but is nervous about balancing the demands on her time and energy, and wanted the *real* story on being a working mom in ministry. Here is part of my response:

–Whenever I drop my daughter off at day […]

This will not be at all interesting except to the various family members who read this blog, but here are the words our daughter uses in approximate order of when she started using them:
tee, or kee (kitty); a later addition is “cat,” pronounced “cot”
dada or dadee
hi
hey (barely distinguishable from hi)
bye bye (pronounced baba, wave optional)
tsee? […]