Inner Landscape of the Soul – the curious anti-narcissist

Fallow Ground

A journey through grief, growth, and healing, explored through the lens of gardening metaphors and personal reflection

When you experience a traumatic loss like the one we did, everyone tells you to expect people to say...

I’m thinking about “parking spot” Christianity. What I mean by this is people who think that God has answered...

I couldn’t sleep on Christmas Eve and I spent the night planning an imaginary pottery studio in the basement...

Periodic Reflections on Grief and Loss Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proudBY JOHN DONNEDeath, be not proud, though some...

I was recently intrigued by an episode of RadioLab Podcast, exploring lying and liars. The episode concluded with a...

Giving has a bit of an underbelly. There’s the part of giving where you think about the recipient, and...

At a neighborhood happy hour last night, pleasantly buzzed and comfortable in my own skin for once (it...

This is my husband, wearing my son’s Halloween costume, raising a frenzy on the busy street in front...

Dec 14, 2017. My foster son had his first sleepover with his biological family last night. The mixed emotions that came...

Three years ago, I was liberated from the tyranny of glasses! After that very first-world surgery, I wrote this...

For almost five years, I felt stuck. Like I was waiting at a train station, or maybe an airport. My waiting lasted from June...

I just finished my last scheduled long run of the training season. Then a week of rest, and I’ll...

You break my heart. There’s me on the left and you on the right. Ten minutes after we took this...

I felt like an alien. Af first it was just a nuisance when the mysterious itchy welts appeared on...

Meet grumpy badger. He so aptly represents my latest (very immature) huff against God. Who would have thought that my...

Life is a hallway of doors. You take one step forward. Then another. You see a door. Knock on...

There’s something in me that thrills to recall finding God’s love for the very first time. There’s something in...

My mom, a little Asian woman with a huge smile and a fierce child-like wonder, is weeping over lunch....

There is one video that made me break the law. Truly. It’s a video of me and my church dance team...