Have you been on social media lately? If so, then your newsfeed (like mine) might be full of your female friends posting two words: “Me, too.” If you are wondering why you are seeing those words all over your screen, they are written in response to a Facebook post that originally read: “If all the […]
Sugar Cane and Simple Things, and What’s That Got to Do with a Statue?
This is how I know that God goes before me: because long before I even had the questions, my Granddaddy Herbert was doling out answers. He used good things as a vehicle for passing down wisdom. He’d catch us baby goats to play with or find us a muddy pond to splash in or slice […]
Food Allergies: When You Have to Let Go and Let Them Live Their Own Story
He can’t consistently pronounce his “L’s” yet, but he knows what it is to fear death. “Mommy,” he told me on Saturday night, “I don’t want to die.” And then a little later: “Does God want me to die? Why?” And though I searched all the hidden rooms of my 36-year-old heart, I didn’t have […]
Tired of Being Common
When I was 12 or 13, I had a real thing for cussing. I was raised better than that, of course, which was exactly what made it so fantastic. I had no control of anything I wanted to have control of at that stage of life, but I could cuss when no one was listening. […]
A Princess, a Peanut Field, and a Lesson America Does Not Want to Learn the Hard Way
The summer after fifth grade two major events in the Daniel household precipitated what would become the most hated summer job of all time: The Daniel kids got a Nintendo and became wholly obsessed in a grumpy, eye-glazed kind of way with getting that princess out of the castle; and My little brother repeated an […]
The Practice of Joy
Growing up, there was no place I would rather be than at my Nana’s house. Many days, we came directly from school to her house for snacks and supper. Long after my sister and brother scampered out the door to play basketball or follow my grandfather around the farm like little puppies, I sat at […]