My husband, Bryan, used to travel to San Jose every other week for work. For a year and a half, I never had to pack a lunch for him to take with him. He was either gone, or he was working from home and had lunch with me and the kids.
Prior to his year of [...]

My Grandmother on my mom’s side died on or around Valentine’s Day a few years ago. She was a sturdy, healthy woman, who simply grew too old for her body to carry her. She died peacefully in her own bed, with my step-father, Gordy, by her side.
My mom was getting her hair done at the [...]

Recently when a girlfriend came over for lunch, I had to clear a path for her through the living room, then clear off the counter to make lunch, then clear off the dining table so we could eat.
We had a good laugh about it, mostly because in the humor of the moment I decided to [...]

If your family were to come on hard times, or were beset by a tragedy, or were somehow incapacitated, what would you do? How would function? How would you care for yourself or the others in your family?
I’m asking you, dear Readers, because you need people. You need call-you-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night friends. You need drop-your-kids-off-at-the-last-minute friends. You [...]

A few months ago on an espresso high, I was reorganizing my bookshelves in the middle of the night when I came across good old Ozzie. Chambers, that is. I read My Utmost For His Highest religiously in college (that was, um, seventeen(ish) years ago). Like most Christians in America, I set my copy next [...]

I had a suspicion this was going to be a difficult Christmas season, so I tried to prepare myself for it mentally. Bryan is working long hours, which means I’m working long hours at home with the kids. Last week I was up all night with kids who had a stomach virus, and [...]

Last year after election day I turned a new leaf and made a new commitment to the democratic process. Having lived a life of political apathy until that point, I felt challenged to care about the democratic process by Christians in my life that I respected. I was not pressured to consider one party [...]

Written by Amy Letinsky.
Ever noticed that on Thanksgiving, people are great at being full of thanks, they’re just horrible at giving thanks? I hear radio announcers say, “We have a lot to be thankful for,” or kids say, “I’m thankful for my mommy and my daddy and my Action 3000 Super Fighter Lightning Striker Hero.” [...]

Kathy Sierra wrote an interesting post earlier this year at her blog, Creating Passionate Users. In it, she asks, Why Are We Still Going to Conferences? and discusses her keynote presentation at this year’s SXSW:
I started my keynote by asking if anyone was live-blogging. Hands shot up across the room. Someone yelled “Twitter!” The whole [...]

Chuck Palanhniuk, author of Fight Club (on which the movie was based), says in the introduction to his book, Stranger Than Fiction,
If you haven’t already noticed, all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.
In a way, that is [...]