This is our last week of Reading Club. I can’t believe it’s coming to an end! I’m not gonna lie – some (most) days it’s been hard. We shifted a few weeks in and started incorporating a lot of character development into our time together. It is needed, and there are little glimmers of hope...
Whew! It’s been a busy weekend, but it’s been SO good! Saturday morning I ran my first half marathon with my trusty, far more experienced running buddy, Brad. We finished in about 2 hours and 6 minutes, beating my goal time by a few minutes! It was so rainy and stormy the night before and...
Tuesday was the first day of the new Reading Club some friends and I started! Here we are walking to the VECA Welcome Center after school. It’s only one mile from the school, but I was a little nervous keeping up with 12 kids by myself! Thankfully we all made it there in one piece and...
Hello blog friends! I hope your Monday is off to a good start. It’s a sunny day here in Memphis, and I’m ready for spring! I have some exciting news I want to share with you here today. I mentioned being impacted recently by the book Love Does. As I read the book, I felt...
We moved to this neighborhood with the hopes of changing it. But I’m learning that it’s really changing me. I’ve never lived in a neighborhood where: we have bars on our windows we have to keep our grill chained up on front porch so it doesn’t get stolen police ride by looking for suspects and...
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{We sponsor Umalu in Uganda, and I refer to him as the first little boy in Africa that I ever loved!}
