In her book Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott writes about witnessing a miracle at church. It’s a beautiful story, one I wish I could quote for you. But right now, the book is stuffed away somewhere in an unpacked box in the back of Noelle’s closet. And so I’ll have to conjure it from memory. Lamott [...]
Author Archives: Christin Taylor
Simplicity
August 5, 2010 – 2:30 pm
Okay, I have to make a list of the things we are doing without since moving to Washington. We didn’t move here with the intention of simplifying – it just sort of happened. And we’re not necessarily trying to be non-mainstream, it’s just sort of working out that way. Here’s what we don’t have anymore [...]
Worms
August 2, 2010 – 1:26 pm
Here was my to-do list when I woke up this morning. It was a short list, but a big one. 1) Get Noelle de-wormed. She has come down with worms for the second time this summer! So in the midst of this big move, the poor thing has had upset stomach, diarrhea and a very [...]
Throw Mountains
July 23, 2010 – 11:41 am
I’m excited to have been invited to post a guest blog over at Throw Mountains today. Renee Johnson and Sarah Cunningham have a cool ministry running over there for 20/30 somethings. Renee invited me to write a bit about the metaphorical shipwreck many young adults hit after graduation, which is the topic of my first [...]
Facing the Child
July 17, 2010 – 10:45 am
Noelle is exactly 2 years and 9 months old today, and I feel like I’m seeing the persona of a little girl emerge from the curtain and sheets of her toddler body. Her protruding belly is disappearing. Her pudgy legs are getting longer, more gangly. Her face and mouth are turning into the silhouette of [...]
Home
July 8, 2010 – 11:16 am
Being in my mother’s home is about as close as it gets to heaven for me. Yesterday, Noelle told me that “NaNa’s house is like a palace.” Which is to say she feels the same way I do. After flying two short hours from Florida, then driving an hour up from Indianapolis, our family arrived [...]
Meal Planning on the Cusp of Goodbye
June 19, 2010 – 2:06 pm
Right now I am procrastinating meal planning this week. We are exactly one week away from packing up the trailer and hitting the road North, and so how do you plan for meals exactly, when you know that in just a few days you will be packing up your kitchen utensils and will be emptying [...]
My Weekend at a Monastery: An Open Journal
June 5, 2010 – 1:46 pm
Three weeks ago, I had the amazing opportunity to spend the weekend at Prince of Peace Abbey on retreat. Dwayne booked the weekend for me as a Mother’s Day gift/ “thank you”-for-supporting-our-family-for-the-last-two-years-while-I’ve-been-in-graduate-school gift. Really, I couldn’t imagine a better present for me. It was an introvert’s oasis. I texted Dwayne on the first night there. [...]
The Pink Chair
May 15, 2010 – 9:38 am
Last night, I sat in the small pink velure chair, cupping Noelle’s tiny shoulders with my arm. We sat together reading her favorite books, just as we have done nearly every night for the last two and a half years. These days, we mostly read the books on the couch in the living room before [...]
A Snippet
May 2, 2010 – 9:18 pm
Well, I have been writing these last few weeks, but not much on the blog. Mostly, when I get a chance to write, I am working on the manuscript and so at the moment feel a little dry with the blog. And so, as a way of keeping the juices flowing, I’d like to share [...]