APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Is your child struggling with being diligent? Maybe in school? Maybe in another area that feels harder for them than their peers? School is hard. Learning is hard. Sports are hard. Some of us struggle more...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Strength is easy to love. It doesn't take convincing to be awed by the power of the ocean, the forces of nature in a storm. We wonder at professional athletes with extreme physical prowess and cheer wildly at the growing strength of...

APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Everything felt overwhelming in our new town and new school. Unfamiliar faces all day, a school building I didn't know my way around and no one I could call my friend, all made me desperately homesick. At...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Be honest, mom. How many times since you brought those blue or pink bundles home from the hospital have you wanted to quit trying? Maybe it's something much more serious than crafting that makes you want to give up. Your areas of...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  Through my car window, I saw him slouching against the pizza parlor wall. His clothes were tattered and dirty. Beside him stuffed into a grocery sack was what appeared to be all of his belongings. Moved with compassion, I ordered an...

  APPLE PODCASTS    †     SPOTIFY  When our girls were young, I often wondered whether the small tasks of mothering meant anything. I had moved from a successful news career to a life as a farmwife and stay-at-home mom. Life was a series of nighttime wake-ups,...