on the edge of ordinary

Looking back at my blog post at  the end of June and I’m amazed—there was so much going on. It's probably no wonder we've hit a bit...

We started the day with a cleaning job. We had been leisurely enjoying breakfast in the van when David spotted another padamelon outside. I ...

A close friend recently sent me a link to a very helpful Facebook post. It’s written by Martyn Iles, an Australia Christian who has had an u...

This morning, my Facebook memories reminded me of the last time we moved out of a house in Japan to go on home assignment. I wrote this just...

This week has definitely shot back to the unavoidable reality that we are moving out of our house and actually out of the country (and jobs,...

Looking back after more than a dozen years of life with kids at this international school in Japan, I know that January has a habit of going...

This is a review of a book I read last weekend. Yes, it's so well written that I managed to read it in just three days (granted my weeke...

We've had a pretty calm, "normal" week and have started to have the head space to look back and process the last few months. ...

I found one of our younger two boys making this table the other day. He's processing what home assignment this year means in his life. I...

"Making it up as you go." Yep, that's what we're doing! Often parenting as a missionary feels like you are all alone ...

This weekend a friend shared a helpful article on Facebook about searching for God's will and why it isn't always clear what we sho...