Sitemap - 2024 - The Courage to Live It

Wanting to Slash Someone's Tires During Advent

Surprises Along the Way

Christmas and Cold Nights and the Missing

When It Feels Like the Plane Might Go Down

Keeping the Wood Stove Warm

This is Magic

Death is an Ocean

When The End Gathers Its Things and Visits Someone We Love

How Do You Measure a Marriage?

Our Nineteen Year Tradition

On a Warm, Summer Night, We Lost Our Dog

"Dad, Is It Ever Discouraging?"

On Telling the Truth

A Summer Evening With My Dad

These Sand Castles We Build

What Looks Like Destruction

The Joy (Terror) of Teaching a Child to Drive

A Post About When We Found Ourselves As a Family

How Will We Bear This World?

On Being Divinely Ambushed

The Day After

In Which We Buy a Bookstore

What Happens Next

Even When We Can't See It

Some Thoughts on Waiting

What Writing Promises, and What It Doesn't

One Writing Book That Changed My (Writing) Life

When Someone Stopped By Unannounced

How Will You Tell Your Story?

In Which We Consider Buying a Bookstore

Outline or Improv?

My Great Cloud of Witnesses

How to Get the First Draft Written

Who Are You Watching Out For?

Why You Should Tell the Ones You Love that You're a Writer

On the Enjoyment of Slow Work

One Way to Generate Story Ideas

Taylor Swift, Malcolm Guite, and Wasted Years

Finding Your Writing Rhythm

When They Leave Home

But What If My Writing Isn't Good Enough?

Remember Who You Are

Welcome to . . .

When We Argue With Reality

Something New For Writers in 2024

Our Writing Videos

On Failing as a Parent

When "Not Writing" is Tugging at Your Soul