Posts
A Post About Mike
Adoption
B's Kitchen
Communications
- 10 Favorite Stories from 2018
- A Place to Be Me (FCA Camp in Pella)
- Homeless shelters: 7 insights after working at one
- Meet author Dr. Jamie Aten – stage 4 colon cancer survivor
- Meet Author Elizabeth Reynolds Turnage – The Waiting Room
- Meet author Kristina Smith – Widowed at age 25
- Meet author Molly McMaster Morgoslepov – 20-year colon cancer survivor
- My Biggest Aha! from the Writer’s Conference
- Professor B
- Remembering My Why in Denver
- Saying Goodbye to “The Kids”
- Stay strong, storytellers
- Thank you Nashville
- The 1.4% (an end of year giving campaign story)
- The Balancing Act of Faith, Family and Career
- The power of a post-abortion story
- What a 12-day social media fast taught me
- When God called me into something and then suddenly called me out
- Why Survivor Stories Matter
- Wow – my younger self was so bold.
- Writing My First Memoir – Part 1
- Writing My First Memoir – Part 2
- Writing my first memoir – Part 3
- Writing My First Memoir – Part 4
- Writing My First Memoir – Part 5
- Writing my first memoir – Part 6
Devotionals
- Birth Order | A Devotional
- Clothes not accessories | A Devotional
- Dwell – A Devotional
- Embracing the Happy – A Devotional
- Fitbit | A Devotional
- Following Orders | A Devotional
- From Hotel to Motel
- From Scanxiety to Hopeful | A Devotional
- Getting the anger out – A Devotional
- Holy Tantrums – A Devotional
- How to Find Joy – A Devotional
- How to not care what others think | A Devotional
- How To Resist Temptation | A Devotional
- I Want More – A Devotional
- If You Care | A Devotional
- In the Club | A Devotional
- It’s OK to Love | A Devotional
- Look forward – A devotional
- Love the Poor | A Devotional
- Mama Needs a Nap – A Devotional
- Me – A Racist? | A Devotional
- Missing the Starbucks Experience – A Devotional
- New Ground – A Devotional
- New Hope (Get the link to my guest blog for The Upper Room!)
- Of Course I’m Jealous | A Devotional
- Open Arms Open Wider – An Adoption Devotional
- Oreos for Breakfast – A Devotional
- Out of the Box – A Devotional
- Piles | A Devotional
- Preparation | A Devotional
- Proud of being afraid – A Devotional
- Racism at the bank – A devotional
- Scared to Follow – A Devotional
- Spring is Coming – A Devotional
- Stairs | A Devotional
- Sticky traps – A Devotional
- Summoned By Name
- Surprise gift – A Devotional
- The Boss of Loss – A Devotional
- Trusting God To Provide | A Devotional
- Two Languages | A Devotional
- We painted the room purple – A Devotional
- Why Ask Why? | A Devotional
- Worth It – A Devotional
- Writer’s Rejection | A Devotional
Faith
- Answered prayers – A Guatemala story
- Birth Order | A Devotional
- Christmas is for everyone
- Clothes not accessories | A Devotional
- Doris from the airplane – A Guatemala story
- Dwell – A Devotional
- Easter at Grandview Amphitheater (A Navah KC Update)
- Embracing the Happy – A Devotional
- Finding God in a Crappy Week
- Fitbit | A Devotional
- Fly Away: Facing my fear of birds
- Following Orders | A Devotional
- Following the Cloud with Navah
- From Hotel to Motel
- From Scanxiety to Hopeful | A Devotional
- Getting Angry at God
- Getting out of a funk (Bible verses about hope)
- Getting the anger out – A Devotional
- God’s Naked Masterpiece
- Guatemala or bust
- Holy Tantrums – A Devotional
- House Church in Kansas City (Testimonies!)
- How to Find Joy – A Devotional
- How to not care what others think | A Devotional
- How To Resist Temptation | A Devotional
- How to Trust God When My Friends Are Dying
- I Want More – A Devotional
- I was the unteachable one (get the link to my guest blog on 936 Pennies!)
- If You Care | A Devotional
- In the Club | A Devotional
- It’s OK to Love | A Devotional
- Learning to accept my mission field
- Look forward – A devotional
- Love the Poor | A Devotional
- Making Peace with Eve
- Mama Needs a Nap – A Devotional
- Me – A Racist? | A Devotional
- Meet Author Elizabeth Reynolds Turnage – The Waiting Room
- Missing the Starbucks Experience – A Devotional
- My Arrow Tattoo
- My Biggest Aha! from the Writer’s Conference
- New Ground – A Devotional
- New Hope (Get the link to my guest blog for The Upper Room!)
- Not Giving Up
- Of Course I’m Jealous | A Devotional
- Offices, Due Dates and House Church Kickoff (A Navah Update)
- One Year Later: Facing my fear of birds
- Open Arms Open Wider – An Adoption Devotional
- Oreos for Breakfast – A Devotional
- Out of the Box – A Devotional
- Piles | A Devotional
- Pray for Orlando – especially if you’re “religious”
- Preparation | A Devotional
- Proud of being afraid – A Devotional
- Racism at the bank – A devotional
- Scared to Follow – A Devotional
- Slow Down and Step Up
- Spring is Coming – A Devotional
- Stairs | A Devotional
- Sticky traps – A Devotional
- Summoned By Name
- Surprise gift – A Devotional
- The Boss of Loss – A Devotional
- The Winding Vines of Self Doubt
- This is 33
- This is 35
- This is the post for Belle.
- To the End (What God had in store for my 18-year cancer anniversary)
- Today I went to a black church.
- Trusting God To Provide | A Devotional
- Two Languages | A Devotional
- We painted the room purple – A Devotional
- What 10 years of “One Word” has taught me
- What a little girl taught me about the border crisis – a Guatemala story
- When God called me into something and then suddenly called me out
- Who’s paying?
- Why Ask Why? | A Devotional
- Worth It – A Devotional
- Writer’s Rejection | A Devotional
News and Announcements
- Announcing: Unexpected. 25 Daily Advent Devotionals
- Blogging for 936 Pennies!
- Guatemala or bust
- I was the unteachable one (get the link to my guest blog on 936 Pennies!)
- Introducing: The Holiday Girls
- I’d like to thank…
- Losing the Health Privilege (get the link to my guest blog for Mayo Clinic!)
- New Hope (Get the link to my guest blog for The Upper Room!)
- Planning my own funeral (guest blog for the Philly Inquirer)
- Professor B
Parenting
- 5 tips for talking to kids about cancer
- Back to Everything
- Danielle & Mae’s 10 Summertime Goals
- Disney Princesses And Different Families
- Fourth of July 2017
- God’s Naked Masterpiece
- Hollywood surprise: Mae’s 9th birthday (pictures!)
- Holy Tantrums – A Devotional
- I Want More – A Devotional
- In Real Life and Roller Skating
- Mama and Mae’s Epic Midwest Road Trip
- Mama Needs a Nap – A Devotional
- My first day of school as a mom
- Oreos for Breakfast – A Devotional
- Surprise gift – A Devotional
- Take Both Knees
- The Day I Wanted to Punch a Kid
- The War on Motherhood (get the link to my guest blog on 936 Pennies!)
- There’s black people at the suburban restaurant
Survivorship
- 15 Years Later – God is my Healer
- 16 Candles (on my cancer survivor cake)
- 17 Reasons God Meant Colon Cancer for My Good
- 3 ways I’m learning I can (when I want to believe I can’t)
- 4 ways I found workout motivation
- 45 Days of No Sugar – Day 1 (fasting sugar for lent)
- 5 lessons from my garden this year
- 5 Reasons I’m Kinda Sorta Beating Stress and Enjoying the Holidays
- 5 tips for talking to kids about cancer
- 5 Ways I Rocked Self Care This Week
- A Monumental Week – Day 36
- A Post about Mike #1
- A Week of Grief
- August 2018 Health Update
- August 2019 Health Update
- Austin Getaway
- Back to Biscuit Baking – Day 20
- Back to Everything
- Because She Was Rose
- Blogability – Day 7
- Celebrate Good Times – Day 5
- Cheers – Day 18
- City of Stars – Day 25
- Cold Turkey – Day 11
- Colon Cancer Books
- Colonoscopy #12 (with Miralax and Gatorade prep)
- Colonoscopy #14
- Colonoscopy Prep Night (and trying something new)
- Common questions answered – a colon cancer blog
- Crash – Day 16
- Danielle & Mae’s 10 Summertime Goals
- Day 8 – Day 8
- Dealing with negative body image issues
- Disney Princesses And Different Families
- Farmhouse Kitchen Remodel
- Finding community changed sickness for me
- Fourth of July 2017
- From Scanxiety to Hopeful | A Devotional
- Getting Angry at God
- Getting Fruity – Day 9
- God’s Naked Masterpiece
- Happy Shelves
- He’s an Insanely Amazing Dad [A tribute to Mikey]
- Health care reform (a cancer survivor’s perspective)
- Heather with the Feather – A Tribute
- Here’s our 2020 so far (with pics!)
- Hey Cancer, FU! – A Tribute to John MacLeod
- Hollywood surprise: Mae’s 9th birthday (pictures!)
- Holy Tantrums – A Devotional
- How I started to look beyond the pain of infertility
- How to Trust God When My Friends Are Dying
- I don’t feel brave
- I Survived Colon Cancer… And Camping
- I Want More – A Devotional
- I wasn’t there, but I’m here now.
- In Real Life and Roller Skating
- It’s hard to be still right now.
- J Pouch vs Ileostomy (Big Surgery Decisions)
- Long Overdue Health Update
- Losing the Health Privilege (get the link to my guest blog for Mayo Clinic!)
- Love to Me
- Mama and Mae’s Epic Midwest Road Trip
- Mama Needs a Nap – A Devotional
- Mama, why was I adopted?
- Meet author Dr. Jamie Aten – stage 4 colon cancer survivor
- Meet author Kristina Smith – Widowed at age 25
- Meet author Molly McMaster Morgoslepov – 20-year colon cancer survivor
- My favorite blueberry pie recipe
- My Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
- My Favorite Sweet Rolls
- My first day of school as a mom
- Not the News I Wanted
- One More Day – Day 44
- Open Adoption Story (by a 6-year-old adoptee)
- Open Adoption Story (by our birth mother)
- Open Arms Open Wider – An Adoption Devotional
- Opening up about cancer again
- Oreos for Breakfast – A Devotional
- Perfectly Imperfect – Day 13
- Remembering My Why in Denver
- Road trip to heaven (A tribute to Ms. Linda)
- Season of Sunflowers
- Second opinions
- September
- Stopping to realize what I’m passing down
- Sunshine over Sugar – Day 2
- Surprise gift – A Devotional
- Surviving Christmas with no money
- Take Both Knees
- Taking surgery advice (and embracing the bowel diary)
- The Balancing Act of Faith, Family and Career
- The Chocolate Box – Day 6
- The Day I Wanted to Punch a Kid
- The Golden Rule and The Enneagram Test
- The Red Shorts
- The War on Motherhood (get the link to my guest blog on 936 Pennies!)
- There’s black people at the suburban restaurant
- This is 35
- This is the post for Belle.
- Thoughts and Prayers – Day 3
- To Life! – A Tribute to Dr. Tom
- To my caregiver Mike: What I hope you know
- To the End (What God had in store for my 18-year cancer anniversary)
- Together – Day 4
- Tour of Champions – Day 15
- We painted the room purple – A Devotional
- What Happened One Week After the Sugar Fast
- What to say to someone with cancer
- What two funerals taught me about the power of presence
- When the Joke’s Not Funny
- Who Are the Joneses Anyway? – Day 10
- Why I chose Plenvu prep again
- Why Survivor Stories Matter
- Worth It – A Devotional
- Yogurtini – Day 45