Category: Parenting
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Hairspray and Hashtags: High School Then and Now
My son heads to his first homecoming while I prepare for my 40th reunion. High school shapes us all, though the marks it leaves look different across generations.
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Four Minutes, Fifteen Years
From a Sunday night concert without dance partners to Monday’s high school registration to Tuesday’s OR vigil, three quiet days reveal the thresholds of parenthood and the way of everything.
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Cow Tail Theology: Mending What Matters Before the Lights Go Out
After a long day of high-stakes leadership decisions, the most important thing was sewing the tail back on my son’s cow costume. This reflection holds space for quiet repairs, divine mending, and the truth that some moments stitch us back together.
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Out of This Nettle…
I wish for a world…strong enough to embrace ever-widening worlds of joy and knowledge and competence, rather than retreating to ever smaller and seemingly safer spaces.
Captain Reverend Mother 