I’m thinking about older brothers today. I only have a younger brother, but my husband is an older brother. The prodigal son had an older brother too. The parable of the prodigal (which means “wasteful and extravagant,” not “returning with tail tucked between his legs”) son is about salvation. The father is God, the elder [...]

I’ve been writing online for a decade and a half, and the question I’ve always wrestled with is “how much is too much to share?” It was a major theme in my honors project in college. It’s the reason I’ve started and restarted far more than my fair share of blogs. And it’s the reason [...]

I’ve been busy. Nothing exciting—well, okay, some exciting things. The Davidson County Young Democrats launched the Good, Bad and the Ugly campaign. I’ve been making progress on my novel and making more of an effort to talk shop with everyone’s favorite Aunt B, an amazing writer of both blog and fiction who actually likes where [...]

I went on a business trip a week ago, and it plunged me into something of a quarterlife crisis/opportunity/epiphany. I’ve been making great progress on this novel – I’m about 25% on the wordcount I wanted for the first draft – but I pulled my head up and realized that I may have been so [...]