Olallie State Park & Foreboding Days {adventure report}
Growing up in the Midwest I used to be terrified of tornadoes. Those stormy days would sweep in, decorating the blue skies of seemingly harmless […]
Category: BELIEVE
Analogues of Resurrection
I have long been very skittish and measured when it comes to talking about my faith, and it took me a long time before I could […]
True Confessions from a former Spring-phobe
I used to hate spring. I know, it seems weird now, because these days, I’m a sunshine chasing, lover of summer, but there was a […]
Unconditional Hope
January is a good month for reflections. Historically, I have like many others, used the beginning of the year to think about making resolutions. I’m […]
No Longer Alone
Matthew 1:23 “She will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us.’” It’s that time of […]
In which I write a letter to Rainy Day…
Dear Rainy Day, Benjamin Zander tells a story about how his father used to say something along the lines of, “there’s no such thing as […]
Terra Incognita
It’s February already; long past the time of ‘new year’s resolutions.’ The truth is, January this year, hit me with a thud. It was both […]
The Empathy ℞ Part 3
Conversations about Empathy It was a crisp autumn day in September, and I was walking my local downtown with coffee in hand. On this particular […]
Why Chase?
So you know when you’re reading textbooks, and they have those little boxes to the side with extraneous information? Say, you’re reading about the revolutionary […]
The Empathy ℞ Part 2
A while back, I wrote a post regarding empathy and how cultivating empathy was a necessary pathway to wellness. I do not believe empathy is […]
2016, A word and A Manifesto
I admit I was a latecomer to the resolutions this year. In many ways, 2016 felt like having a child and then refusing to name […]
The Empathy ℞
This morning as I opened my Google mail, I was intrigued by an e-mail from The Institute of Functional Medicine regarding a 2012 study published in PLOS ONE. The experiment involved a specific […]