Caroline's Blog

At the end of the year we turn with eagerness to all that God has for the future, and yet anxiety is apt to arise when we remember our yesterdays. Our yesterdays hold broken [...]

I wish you joy this season! Joy when you feel overlooked and lonely, and joy in the peace and holy stillness. Joy when a loved one who is deployed returns home, and joy when [...]

There are many pressing issues I could address about the state of education today — ranging from systemic structures and pedagogical practices to the realities within my own school district, where I’ve been teaching [...]

***What is the mark of a humble servant leader? The mark of a humble servant leader is the ability to prioritize the well-being and growth of others, often placing other needs above one's own. [...]

“Our lives are lived in chapters, and there’s nothing wrong when one chapter ends and another begins” (Mrs. Patmore, in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale). The thematic topics of chapters and change in the [...]

I really miss hugging my three daughters every day, but I’m comforted knowing they’re doing well and thriving at university. Physical closeness has always been my love language — reading their expressions, holding hands, [...]

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is [...]

"It was a September evening and all the gaps and clearings in the woods were brimmed up with ruby sunset light. Here and there the lane was splashed with it, but for the most [...]

TEN years ago today, we adopted a loving, and curious chocolate lab in the Chicagoland suburbs. He was full of energy and not yet one year old. Ranger was originally named Sawyer and had [...]

I really wish you an ever deeper peace. I know peace quite often lives underneath the turmoils and anxieties of our heart and doesn’t always mean inner harmony or emotional tranquility. Peace which God [...]