Episcopal chaplain at Rice University in Houston. Mother to Neil and Annie. Wife to Josh.
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Some Thoughts You May Have the Week After Your Parents’ Deaths
1. You will be amazed at what you can accomplish from bed. 2. You will never, ever buy into the idea that prayers do not help. And the prayers of those who have suddenly lost people (children, spouses, parents) will somehow mean more. 3. Suddenly all Christmas books have grandmas in them. 4. You will realize […]
The Hell Houses We Will Not Leave
What does this Pandemic-Meets-Election-Meets-Halloween Moment Feel like if not like our Greatest Fears Strewn Across the Front Yard?
Elevator Encounters
Perhaps God Chose Us to Be the Ones to Face the Rage Because We Know that We Do Not Face it Alone
Inheriting the Crazy Bible: My Grandfather and Me
“Who in the World is Casually Throwing Around the ‘C Word’?!”
Giving In to Screens and Finding Home
There’s No Place like Home, and Other Moments of Vulnerable Mercy in the Movies
When a Fish Dies at the Children’s Hospital and Other Thoughts on Prayer
Or, What a Dying Fish Reminded Me about God
The Hardest Moments Right Now
Tired, Sad, and Fed Up: In Other Words, the Everyday Struggles of Quarantine
Things My Grandmothers Taught Me That Are Helping Right Now
Nothing Wrong with Elastic Waisted Pants, and Other Homegrown Wisdom