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Same Woman, Two Places
I went on a first date once, a few years ago, with a man who looked very good on paper. He was a man of God. Emotionally mature, by every account. Available. Kind. Stable. I didn’t know much beyond that, and I don’t imagine he knew much more about me. We’d had maybe three phone…
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A Brother Born For Adversity
The day started before the day did. I’d worked overnight for the daylight saving time change, which in my line of work means sitting up through an hour that happens twice, making sure the medication systems and timed doses don’t do anything unpredictable (or stupid) when the clocks roll back. I got very little sleep….
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Talking To My Shadow
I was 10 when I gave my life to Christ, and I had no idea what it would do to my house. My mother found out quickly. And she decided, almost immediately, that her new mission in life was to make sure I wasn’t “brainwashed.” That was her word. Religion, in her mind, was an…
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Set Apart, and Set Apart To What
I had a conversation recently about what it means to be set apart, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot this week. I’ve spent a lot of years in and around evangelism, including working through what makes a Christian different from the world. When I was a baby Christian, the answer was easy, because…
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Meet The Alchemist
I read more than is probably reasonable and keep trying to fit one more bookshelf into my living room. It’s a battle I’ve mostly accepted.
I ended up becoming the family’s “black sheep” who pursued medicine instead of the arts everyone in my family seemed to wander into. Somewhere between pharmacology and theology, I found myself gathering more degrees than I intended. “The Alchemist Chronicles” acknowledges the lineage: those of us who measure powders as heirs to medieval practitioners who eventually became known as “pharmacists.”
I live what I consider an abundantly vibrant life. I’m told that If an exclamation point was a person, it would be me. I dance, teach, draw, lift, explore, play, and regularly disappear into a Dungeons & Dragon campaign. If there’s a hobby that exists, chances are I tried it at some point. At home, I have a pet snake named Tiamat and I’m a single mom to a brainy kiddo I’m profoundly proud of. My heart is full, as is my plate.
My aim is simply to leave a record of where I have been, what I have noticed, and why it mattered to me. If that resonates with you as well– welcome to this corner of the internet.
