Posts by writingjoy
Welcome to Motherhood
This is the first of a special week-long series I’m calling “Welcome to Motherhood.” It is the story of meeting our firstborn and through her, the staff at Children’s Hospital. I will post two installments per day, the first at 7am and the second sometime between 1 and 3pm (eastern), through Friday. I remember telling…
Read MoreNo More Robocalls. I’m Taking Back Control of This Election.
I live in a swing state, and my phone has been ringing off the hook for months. Most of the calls are either some chick from “Card-Holder Services” or a recorded politician. What I hate most about the recordings is I can’t tell anyone to take me off the list. It is crazy-making. I am…
Read MoreThe Trouble with a Cause-and-Effect God
Last week I wrote about a news story spreading like wild fire that Bob Marshall, delegate to the Virginia legislature, stated that disabled children are a judgment from God on women who have had abortions. I did further research over the weekend, and it turns out, that news story had many inaccuracies. I took that…
Read MoreWhat I’ve Learned from Life:Unmasked, and What I Haven’t
I’ve been hosting life:unmasked for a year now. It isn’t the most wildly popular link-up ever, but I think that’s understandable. Not everyone is ready to take off their mask. It takes courage and a certain amount of confidence that being real isn’t going to wreck you. In some ways, it hasn’t changed my writing.…
Read MoreTo My Son on the Eve of His 10th Birthday ~ The Parent ‘Hood
You exploded into our lives through a fury of burning tearing pain. I had pushed so hard with one leg, rolled up on one hip because you were turned sideways, that I couldn’t bear any weight on that leg the next day. You had tried to ram your head, fist, and shoulders all at once.…
Read MoreWhat’s Wrong with the “Homeschooling Isn’t Missional” Argument
Thirty years ago, my parents pulled my younger sister and I out of the private Christian school where we were enrolled. My mom, a teacher by training, decided that my sister needed some focused one-on-one attention to master reading, writing, and arithmetic. Their plan was to put her back in school in a year or…
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