Melissa

Lindsay Clancy and our Culture of Death

August 21, 2026

Outside the courthouse where Lindsay Clancy is being tried for the murders of her three small children, ages 5, 3, and 8 months, women are gathering. Wearing pink, they carry signs ...

Final Words

August 15, 2026

I've spent hours in the car with Sawyer lately. In these final weeks leading up to college, I've driven with him to new student conferences and college camps that are meant to ...

Peace is Better

August 8, 2026

A fiery certainty lives inside most human beings when they're 25 years old. 25 year olds are the ultimate in confidence that they know the best way to do things, the best way to ...

It’s Hard to Grow Up

July 24, 2026

Growing pains are showing all around me. In all the various stages of life that my kids are in, each one is being forced to let go of what is behind to forge on toward what lies ...

I Remember a Dirt Road

Struggling with the Struggle

Lessons in Waiting for Water

Rethinking the Value of Potential

What Love Looks Like

The Light Gets Through

The Idol of Our Expectations

I am Regathering my Courage

I’m Not an “Angel Mommy,” and Here’s Why

Dishes and Divorce: Why Little Things Can Lead to a Breakup

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