On Trying New Things

This summer, our nine-year-old and six-year-old tried something new…they joined swim team! As I fumbled through ordering swim team suits, finding goggles that wouldn’t leak, and trying to figure out what the difference between 25s, 50s, IMs, and relays were, they flourished. They have been swimming since they were infants, but not with stroke expectations …

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On Milestones

This weekend, my family joined me as I graduated from the inaugural TIDEL Fellowship through Union Theological Seminary. This was an 18-month fellowship and I listened to the keynote on the importance of techno-selectivity in the an AI world, I realized just how much life we had lived in 18 months. We had lived in …

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On Endings

My lesson plans are filled with reflection activities as I try to guide my almost middle schoolers to think about what they have learned over the course of their elementary year. We are asking questions like, “What did you learn that you will always remember? What advice do you have for the rising 5th graders? …

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On Dressing Up

It was superhero day, which I had forgotten until the notification dinged on my phone. I dashed to our nine-year-old’s closet to see what I could find for three of us to wear to show our support for the school spirit day. As I rifled through the closet, I found the superhero cape I had …

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Jesus’ Journey to Jerusalem

This is the moment we have been waiting for. It’s the moment throughout the gospel of Luke that we have heard about. Jesus has been predicting this death and his betrayal since right after he fed the five thousand. He knew where his journey would lead even though his disciples didn’t understand what he was …

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Love Where You Live

We now watched three seasons pass in our new home in our new-ish city. It is strange to think that you could know a place so well and then come back home only to realize how much it has changed…or maybe it’s how much you have changed? It has been so fun to watch our …

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