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We have spent years preparing for this moment, to send my first daughter off to college. And now, 18 years later, is the time to let go, even amidst the mix of hesitation and [...]

Parenting three teen girls is not for the faint of heart. It’s refining and emotional and often the most personally reflective of my own challenges and limitations. How will I model living within and [...]

Raising three teenagers requires my entire heart and mind and emotional capacity. Shaping character is as painful for me as a mother as it is for their tender spirits. Some days the discipline bit [...]

We have concluded the month of May and with it have set behind us the academic year; we can now enter a season of rest. As an educator with a busy and often overwhelming [...]

For my 3 teens, finishing the 2020 school year was akin to trekking uphill without six meals a day (teens are Hobbitses) and wearing a cape from the elves, paddling a roaring river, throwing [...]

"I am sorry," I tell her. "This was my first global pandemic as a mother. And my first time parenting teens." Nothing I say will sway a firmly-set opinion. I do not remember these [...]

Their Queen announced victory and peace for the Dutch people and claimed 5 May 1945 as their Victory Day, as papers were signed in Wageningen of a treaty, with Germany’s admitted defeat. Hundreds of [...]

This time of year the light shifts and fades to sunset long after dinner. It feels like we can linger longer over a slower pace and stretch out with our dog, who loves the [...]

What happens when we become a wounded healer? I ask because a life in public service is in the business of helping people learn respect, equity, and find personal hope and healing — as [...]

In her autobiography, The Hiding Place, Corrie ten Boom wrote about her early life and call to hide Jews during WWII in Haarlem, the Netherlands.Her writing often discusses various trials they faced over the [...]