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to the good.
Exploring Personal Growth + Spiritual Life, Parenthood + Connection.

Why Written for the Good?
Life both online and off can feel like a vortex of negative, nerve-wracking or less-than-lovely.
But there is still so much good. Let’s look for it. Let’s add to it.
Good (n)
That which benefits someone or something. That which is virtuous.
I hope this place feels like good. Like coffee with a friend.
Let's look for more good.
Exploring personal growth + spiritual life, parenthood + connection.
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The Surprising Gift in Going Back to Church (after years of covid + chaos)
Something surprised me about going back to church after years of covid and chaos, something I really missed, yet never knew I had. If you’re a faith person, are you participating in a faith community again? Let’s just say when a kid got a runny nose during the thick of covid, my world fell in

The Two Ways Sending My Six-year-old to Summer Camp (for the First Time) Changed Me
Sending your kid to camp for the first time feels just like how their first day of school felt… only instead of it lasting seven hours, it lasts seven days. We sent our mere six-year-old to summer camp – the cabin kind with bunk beds and breakfast – for the first time this summer. I

Open Letter to The Good Teacher
If you are a parent of a school-aged-kid you’ve made decision over decision over decision about your child’s education in the last couple years. You DIY’d school, skipped it, virtual’d it and assisted it. You sent your kids and kept them home and juggled the juggles, did the rapid tests and the isolation periods and

5 Ways to Prioritize Connection in Polarizing Conversations with Friends
Your friendships matter to you… because you’re here. 🙂 Or maybe you feel like you don’t have many friends. Or maybe you feel alone and unheard in the friendships you have. Judging by the response from so many of you on my last post – “Can we talk about why friendship feels hard sometimes” –

Can We Talk About Why Friendship Feels Hard Sometimes?
This is going to be a little raw and half-baked because I want your input. Have you noticed friendship feels hard sometimes? After listening to Jennie Allen talk about friendship and John Mark Comer talk about community, then looking at my own relationships, I’m thinking about why friendship and community feel so strange sometimes. Not

Why you need to stop asking a woman when she is having a baby (or what to know before you do)
Asking a woman about when she’s having kids is not casual conversation, it’s intimate information.