Read a biography this summer
One of my life principles are: competent people are competent also at getting rest and recharging. To be constantly busy does not mean we are productive. It’s just being busy, […]
Tag Archives: rest
The Fear of Reentry
These weeks easily have to be some of the most difficult, anxiety-ridden weeks of the year. For most of the people I know, the last two weeks of December involve […]
Rootedness in a Transient World
When I was married for six and a half years, I realized we had moved seven times. Eight for me if you count moving in with my wife when we […]
Get Some Sabbath
I like to think that my body is holding up pretty well, given that it hasn’t had much sleep since our third child was born last November. “Sleep when the […]
The Art of Lying in Bed
Every now and then I find people who delight in the physical act of waking up in the morning. They don’t associate waking up with bad breath, the screams of […]
Hopeful Dissatisfaction
The Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer has recently been elected the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was born in Stockholm in 1931 and published his first collection […]
Feeling Tired Too?
Recently, I’ve begun thinking that I may be too tired to be a Christian. Trying to juggle my PhD program, my husband’s home-based business start-up, a ten-month old who doesn’t […]
Wondering Fair 