Treat Yourself: Experiments in Self-Care

As my fellow Parks and Recreation fans might know, today is Treat Yourself Day, in honor of the 3rd anniversary of that particular episode. (If you have no idea what I am talking about, read on anyway because I won't be talking about TV shows, I promise.) As a dedicated fan of the show, and …

Big Sister 101: Embracing the Role

My brother, Noah, was born a month and a half after I turned one, so I literally cannot remember a time when I wasn't a big sister. Isaiah was born a year and a half after that, so by age three the title "big sister" was very much ingrained into my identity. This, combined with …

Ready or Not, Here I Come!

  In the passed two years I have become increasingly aware that adulthood is something that you grow into very slowly. It's a process. And often it doesn't feel like you're getting anywhere. I see posts from my peers all over social media sites making jokes about how bad they are "at adulthood". "Eating ice …

Chasing Perfection and Finding Grace (Maybe… Sort of?)

Today marks the one year anniversary of a fairly big life change for me; the end of a relationship, several friendships, a shift from one era to another. As I have been reflecting on the passed year I've found that though I have established myself in whatever this new phase of my life is, I …

Reflections on Belonging and Justice

Since writing my last blog post I have spent a lot of time reflecting on the implications of a greater belonging. What does it mean to place ourselves in a larger story? One thought that kept coming up again and again when I asked myself that question was, "it means there's no such thing as …

Some Thoughts On Belonging

When I was six years old, I distinctly remember knowing exactly what being a follower of Jesus meant to me. Our homeschool group held weekly “park days”, where a large group of moms would sit and chat while all of us kids ran around on a playground or in a field playing together. When I …

Wanted: Spiritually Fulfilling Lifestyle to Suit Idealistic Millennial

Last week my dad and I travelled to North Carolina to attend the yearly Wild Goose festival. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Wild Goose is a four-day event based in Christian spirituality, but with a focus on social justice, art and intentional practice. To quote the website: We dream of a movement where …

Finding Historical Inspiration in the Grimke Sisters

For one of my history classes last semester we were assigned a research paper that dealt with race and ethnicity in the US. We were supposed to start with one primary source document and expand our research from there. I chose a document written by Angelina Grimké. At the time I knew a little bit …