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Twenty Years of Stories

This is the archive: two decades of questions, lessons, and moments worth writing down. I don't publish here much anymore, but I do still write about my life today, what I'm up to, travel, family, work insights, and more. If you want the current stuff, that's what the newsletters are for and I'd love for you to subscribe.

Are You Living in the Land of Tired?

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As parents, it’s the one thing we seem to be able to agree on, no matter all our other kid-raising philosophies: we’re all T I R E D. Join me tonight on a special FB Live on All Mom Does to talk about the fatigue of family building and care and best practices to keep on a’going! Monday, October 3rd,…
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Speechless…

Raising an Original· Writing

Friends, I am utterly speechless. Yesterday was the official release day for my new book Raising an Original. If that wasn’t exciting enough, the book almost instantly shot up to #1 Bestseller status on Amazon (in the Christian Family category) and it was in the top few hundred of books OVERALL on Amazon as well. At first I thought I…
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When Your Timeline and God’s Timeline Don’t Match

Faith· Raising an Original· Writing

That picture right up there? Y’all. I’d pretty much written off any kind of experience like that. Signing books? Me? A book I had written? What? My lit agent Esther Fedorkevich of the Fedd Agency threw a little soiree last night to celebrate the upcoming release of Raising an Original: Parenting Each Child According to Their Unique God-Given Temperament. She’s recently…
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