Take Up & Read

What I’ve learned about friendship over the years

As I’ve been traveling through “True Friend,” the latest Take Up & Read scripture study, I’ve been thinking a lot about how my views of friendship have changed throughout my life. I have a few scant memories of my earliest neighborhood friends in McHenry, Illinois – a wispy, freckled girl named Chelsea as well asRead the whole post >>

I’m a wife, mom of five kids, writer, speaker, storyteller, bibliophile, runner, eating disorder survivor, and perfectionist in recovery. I'm the author of Getting Past Perfect: Finding Joy & Grace in the Messiness of Motherhood and Weightless: Making Peace With Your Body.

I’ve tried a lot of things in my life – anorexia, bulimia, law school, teaching aerobics, extended breastfeeding, vegetarianism, trying to be perfect and failing miserably at it – and through it all I’ve been writing. And learning to embrace the messiness of life instead of covering it up, making excuses for it, or being ashamed of my brokenness or my home’s sticky counters.

Nowadays I’m striving every single, imperfect day to strike a balance between keeping it real and keeping it joyful.