Newly married and looking to start a family we landed at the best fertility doctor we could find. He said we had an antibody between us that did not match. I have no desire to be graphic here, but, on a slide in the lab, my eggs literally ran, and fast! Two years of heartbreakin...
Just finished reading the script for Alexander Payne’s new film “Downsizing.” He penned it with his old writing partner Jim Taylor. I can report that it is by-turns a hilarious and heartbreaking exploration of the human condition under extremis. It is also a very brave embrace of both ...
literally peeing my pants in the middle of the night (the nurse warned me that can happen after a spinal block) and needing to somehow change clothes and clean up while managing a numb heavy useless leg and a walker. The opioids probably helped, even though at the time I would have ...
Maybe your season of stillness means actively serving and being faithful with where God has you right now, or maybe your season of stillness means God is literally telling you to stop, slow down, and “be still and know that He is God” (Psalm 46:10). Maybe you’ve been working too ...
“My jaw dropped,” he told me. “I literally felt my jaw drop and my mouth was hanging open. She giggled and I couldn’t believe she was real.” I’ve never heard him talk this way before: “She was SO much fun — down to Earth, real (or so it seemed), highly intelligent,...
My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other. — Yunus Emre 98 So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. — Helen ...
I love London but my heart is heavy. Leaving my Ugandan home hurts every time but somehow this time feels harder than other years. I think this has been the most incredible of all my trips, full to bursting with so many happy moments, with both families there to share in the joy and...
1. This keeps up, this hand is literally going to be dead meat. His hand is connected to his arm. His arm is connected to... I'm not sure, but I bet it's important. 如果情况继续恶化,他这只手会烂成腐肉的,他的手连着胳膊,而胳膊又连着……我不方便说,总之是更重要的地方 2. You ...
And when I tried to do those things, I’d become short of breath – not briefly winded, like when you run to catch a bus, but literally unable to breathe. I lost my appetite and I lost my voice. I bought bottles of cough syrup and drank them like juice. People walked too quickly...
Let the waves of grief come. Don’t resist them or try to explain them away. An institution you have loved and learned from and served and fought hard to remain in has rejected you. That hurts. Don’t harden your heart to protect it from the pain. Feel your feelings. All of them....