I love to ship things. That's likely the nerdiest thing you've ever heard, but let me clarify: I love to ship things that people have...

My Granny Pearl thought her husband, my Papa, gave too much money to the church. This was an ongoing conflict between the two of them,...

Every book has a story. The idea for Move the Needle came soon after we started Storia Editing and Publishing. My collaborators and I are...

When she was 12 years-old, Martha was forced to leave her biological family in the Volta Region of Ghana and move halfway across the...

On my 32nd wedding anniversary, I had a breakdown. It had nothing to do with my husband, my marriage, or my failure to get him a gift or...

When I was a little girl, I wrote stories on rough sheets of unlined construction paper my mother bought at Gibson’s Five and Dime store....

I guess everyone thinks their dog is the best. We told her this a hundred times in the week before we said goodbye, and we meant it....

There is an app called Blur Photo that allows you to safely post a photo that will, no surprise, blur faces. This Mother’s Day, I...

“I think these are love letters,” my daughter said as she sat cross-legged on the floor of a storage unit that held the last of my...

A few weeks ago we were having a pleasant family dinner on the front porch and when the conversation lagged a bit, my husband thought it...

March 10 was the last semi-normal day I remember. After an eye doctor appointment, I went back to work then stopped by the store on the...

My dog is terrified of storms. They are debilitating for her. Her legs shake, she can’t eat, she can’t sit or lay down and she pants as...

My mother died 12 years ago today. I’ve been thinking about her more than usual, which means instead of five times a day, it’s ten times....

The only photos I have of my childhood Halloween are the two years I was dressed as a clown. My mother was an excellent seamstress, but...

I’m a little edgy the week between Christmas and the New Year, trying hard to “take time off” but also feeling a looming sense that I...

Yesterday we welcomed 13 new students for the fall session of our Refugee and Immigrant Sewing Enterprise. They came ready to sew, but...

Before we moved into our house last year, we constructed a long list of things we needed to purge and cable television was one of them....

A while back, before I lived in the non-profit world and realized how truly generous most people are, I decided to ditch the corporate...

Our middle child, Erin, started kindergarten at a large public school in a suburb of Tulsa. On her first day at Jenks East Elementary, I...

My proclamation a few weeks before Lent began – that I was giving up grumbling for the six weeks – was probably a relief for the people...