The phone rings. The texts begin. The e-mail notifications rapidly grow in size and so does the knot in my stomach. Just a few days before take off, and I know what’s happening. The lump in my throat is familiar and the swirling of all things around me feels too comfortable. I know this feeling. I…
Today, Ash Wednesday commences the beginning of the season leading up to Easter and honestly, it’s one of my favorite times of the year. Not because I’m a church girl, but because any period where I am stretched spiritually always makes me better. I will not pretend that I enjoy the stretching, I just like…
“Leaders are readers,” my Dad replied to my then, know-it-all 20-year-old-self. If I wanted to lead well, I was going to learn to read well, too. I loved reading as a child, but college turned reading into an assignment for me rather than a practice of goodness and growth. I was complaining about my read-one-book-a-week-and-write-a-one-page-response…