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This Middle Part of Childhood is Just as Good
Hey kids,
I love where you’re at right now.
Like, right this moment.
No, it’s not because both of you are tucked in bed, the sweetness of sleep wrapping you up like a down comforter.
It just quietly dawned on me that this stage in your lives is incredibly fun. In a few months, one of you will be ...
9 Ways to Create the Best Father’s Day for Your Man
It has an uncanny knack of sneaking up on you. Like heartburn after biriyani. Father’s Day seems to pop up before you’re even done recovering Mother’s Day “brunch” (i.e. toast and OJ in bed courtesy chefs under four foot high).
Wives and kids everywhere are scrambling for last-minute gifts. Will dad end up with another well-intentioned tie?
Or ...
Confessions of a Chronic Complainer
When the editors at a website to which I contribute posted a ‘Month of No Complaining’ challenge, I signed up without missing a beat.
After all, I’m a grateful person, I thought. I’m not a compulsive complainer, I thought. It can’t be THAT hard, I thought.
After completing a month of the experiment, let’s just say there was ...
We Can’t Look The Other Way
He had his in hands in his pockets.
That usually signifies the casual, the nonchalant, the carefree.
That doesn’t usually signify hate, crime, or murder.
And yet while the police officer pinned George Floyd down with his knee bearing down on his neck, he casually put his hands in his pockets. Like he was taking a stroll. Like ...
Motherhood – The Freedom of Not Being Enough
There was a time when I would grab my son’s soft baby feet and squish them and smush them and foist way too many kisses on them. Yeah, that was before said feet started to resemble... hooves. About a decade later, forget squishing his feet, I wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole. (Sorry, kid, ...
Let God do the Deep Cleaning
Sweat drips down my forehead. My glasses slide down my nose. Splotch. A bead of sweat is now on my glasses. Uugh. This is so not fun.
I wipe my face on my really-should-be-trashed t-shirt and go back to sweeping the floor.
I have been at this 43 minutes already. Forty-three minutes of cleaning every nook and ...
Your Home Is A Powerful Mission Field
“Go home.”
Those two words spoken by veteran preacher John MacArthur about author and teacher Beth Moore created pandemonium on the Internet last month.
While I found the comment hurtful and unnecessarily divisive, I simply don’t have the theological training to definitively share on this issue. Thankfully for you and me, this is not another opinion piece ...
Three Words That Can Help Smooth Those Wrinkles In Your Marriage
Admit it. You’ve aimlessly wandered along the corridors of Facebook, only to mindlessly binge-watch blooper videos. Okay, maybe that’s just me. It’s sadistically delightful to see someone more clumsy than you are. Recently, I sniggered my way through one of those #epicweddingfails videos. You know, the clip where a bridesmaid falls into a lake as ...
Installing India – Phase 1
Pulling out another one from the archives. I wrote this post four years ago, when we still experiencing "reverse culture shock" when we moved back to India after about 12 years of living in the US.
Four years on, I cannot believe that Trader Joe's and Costco don't appear on my to-do list. But professional in-home ...
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