January 22, 2016I am riddled with discouragement.  There are so many things that I’d like to do and I would be satisfied with only doing one or two; but right now it’s challenge enough to

January 15, 2016This, this is the hardest thing I have ever done: living my daily life right now.  And yet my days are flanked by the sweetest of moments.  They are ever so brief; but

It’s Christmas Eve and the landscape outside my windows changes from a thicket of green to a blanket of white.  My babies are sleeping, at least for now, and there is nothing like big snowflakes

Advent Letter 2015This year as I ponder the advent season I am drawn to think of Mary’s story of Jesus’ birth.  With the story of my newborns’ arrival fresh in my mind, Mary’s story takes

Garrett and Allison: A Birth StoryWe joyfully welcome the arrival of our healthy twin babies.  After 8 and 1/2 months of pregnancy I was ready to meet my babies and discover what life with twins

I have longed to write this piece for months now (indeed, I wrote some in May which I will share along the way).  I want to share what being pregnant with twins has been all

Christmas is a gift-giving season.  Indeed the very first Christmas the Magi arrived bearing gifts for the newborn Messiah.  Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh were bestowed on the King of the Jews who was a gift

This is life right now: my life. It has taken on a visceral quality so that I find myself often referring to “the guts of life” these days.   Life has become untidy and wretched with

Life is the sum total of the moments we live.  This mantra has been bouncing around my mind today as I took moments to fully enjoy my daughter; as I simply laid on the living

(For those of you who do not know, Ella Smith is the heroine in the novel I began penning a few years ago.  I have surpassed the 50,000 word mark and so my work can