Rory Turns Four!
Yellow and pink, purple and green, “All the colors” are Rory’s favorites, especially when it comes to painting!
Send Me to Nepal!
In 2010 I traveled to Nepal with a team of youth. We backpacked through the country helping a local group called the Nepali Rescue Project. The Nepali Rescue Project has been an extension of my church since 2006 when my pastor, Eric Watt, listened to a friend and took action against the epidemic of sex…
A Reminder of Compassion
For the last three months I have been working on a youth focused curriculum for work. The topic is about human sex trafficking and what it looks like in the United States. Also how pornography fuels human trafficking, albeit unintentionally by most consumers of pornography. It has been a difficult curriculum to write because 1.…
Rock’n Trip on Highway 1
Three words: purple, haze, rocks. This describes the previous week’s energies. On Monday the weather surprised with seventy degrees after a busy workday, we couldn’t resist a trek to the east coast, our beloved Virginia Beach. It is an innate longing within Rory’s heart to touch her toes to the sand, to encompass her ankles…
California Has Broccoli
We all have the choice to be swayed by outside opinion. Just the other day Rory was trying to convince me why she should go to California. Ryder was trying to convince her otherwise as he knows she isn’t getting a trip to California until she is at least five. “Rory, there is broccoli in…