What The Average Human Should Know About AI
It’s been a year since ChatGPT splashed onto the national discussion. AI isn’t anything new, but the ability to interact with a chatbot and have it do your bidding in […]
On Being 42
I don’t think it’s fair to label this year “hard.” It was, but when I look at the suffering in the world these days, I think I’m ok with lowering its status to “unexpected” and “things I wouldn’t have chosen.” And the ending to all of these mostly unwelcome surprises has been happy – testaments to the faithfulness of God and the fullness of the friendships and relationships we’ve cultivated. They have been pulsating stones, screaming of God’s kindness to me.
How To Find A Unicorn
It stands to reason, then, that when Community is at its best, it lets us be our Alone Version of ourselves. Not the person we put on for others to see – but the person we are when nobody is looking. And when we let others look: behold the mess, behold the funny, behold the Real, and they respect us and we respect them, Community grows.
Cue rainbow sparkles.
Carried
A few weeks ago, I woke with a pain in my side, most ‘scruciating.* Ever faithful, my husband, Andrew, took me to the doctor. While I cried and whimpered in […]
Of Fiction and Quilts
When I tripped and fell and wrote a novel, I struggled a little to justify it. I had this feeling that fiction was somehow “less than.” It was just a […]
Moral of the Story: Check Your Spam Folder
I’m pleased (honored, thrilled, happy dancing) to tell you that I have signed with a literary agent! in loss of innocence AudieJ Rachelle Gardner of Books & Such Literary Agency […]
Hypothetical Hats
I don’t get to unzip the Mom role or shimmy out of the Wife title. I wear them like a second skin. So when the interruptions come, which they will, I try to remember the difference between that which can be removed -a hat of questionable fashion- and that which makes up my whole.
Notes From the Rock Tumbler
My most recent writing class asked students to compare themselves to a fairy tale character. Students struggled to find the perfect fit. My job was to reassure them that the […]