If you scroll down a couple posts, you’ll see a comment from Dawn, who’s wrestling with church roles. She’s been on my mind a lot lately because I think her note personifies exactly what a lot of us go through in various forms, in various ways. I’ve been wanting to respond to her–you, if you’re […]
Identity
Sick of Myself
When I started writing my book a few months back, a friend of mine—who once wrote a book of his own—gave me some advice for when “you hate your book.” While in the midst of writing it (and write it I did—I turned it in to my editor on time three weeks ago!) I never […]
Hybrid Moms
I admittedly hate most of the marketing-type names that moms get saddled with: stay-at-home mom, working mom, soccer mom, Alpha Mom, Beta Mom, yada yada. But within the past year or so, I’ve come across a couple that I love: mompreneur (how sexy is that?!) and my total fave, hybrid mom. If we’ve got to […]
‘Most Boring Person in the Room’
Again, it’s Caryn the lazy blogger. This time I’m going to steal a quote from one of the members of my Big Mom Group–the collection of women I’ve assembled who’ve been sharing wisdom, insight, and stories for my book. As I’ve been laying out my chapter on the language we use and the answers we […]
‘Pinching Shoes’
I’ve become a lazy blogger. One of the downsides (and it may be the ONLY downside, actually) of writing a book is that I’m neglectful of this blog, which I really enjoy. I have stacks of things I want to write about here, but need to spend most quiet moments trying to meet the March […]
A Bit of a Scrape
Since last Friday I’ve sported quite the scrape across my lower left cheek (on my face). Since it’s not disfiguring and healing nicely, I have to say I’ve taken a bit of a fancy to it. Actually, not so much to the scrape itself, but to the mystique of having it. It’s funny how differently […]
