How to Help is a series of thoughtful and practical reader submissions. If you would like to submit a “How to Help” post for consideration, please contact me. This guest post is by Erin Adams. We look at each other. Tired eyes. Tremendous love and sorrow mingling together. We both somehow know it is time. We ring […]
How to Help is a series of thoughtful and practical reader submissions. If you would like to submit a "How to Help" post for consideration, please contact me. This guest post is by Darcie Maranich. What I most remember about being sixteen and pregnant is the wayward looks from strangers. I remember the downcast eyes or […]
Know anyone who is exhausted or discouraged? Think of the man on what-seems-like a perpetual job hunt. The new mother with an infant on her shoulder. The college student who hovers between uncertainty and confidence about his future. The high school girl who is trying to break out of her cocoon. The ten-year-old who lost […]
"I'm not sure I can run 4 miles," I told Tim yesterday, as I held my 1/2 marathon training plan in my hands. "You don't have to run 4 miles," he answered non-chalantly, "you have to run one mile - four times." Sometimes the problems of the world seem too large. I wrestle with the […]
What do you do when a friend posts on Facebook that she has the flu? Or perhaps you hear through the grapevine that your neighbor has the stomach bug? Since a 24-hour virus of some kind just passed through our house, I thought I'd take a moment to record what kind of items would be […]
What do you do when a friend is in a tough spot? (Miscarriage. Morning Sickness. Military deployment. Lost job. Recovering from new baby. Death in the family. Bad day. Etc.) If you are like most people, you will call up or send a text or write on his/her facebook wall, "Let me know if I […]