Here’s another park thought in my nanny chronicles:  I write these posts as they happen and it went something like this:  I am currently watching as little girls and boys jump in sand, climb trees and laugh until they’re cranky and need a nap or maybe just a snack. And between the monkey bar jumping […]

For the past week I’ve been watching these two girls, nine and five years old. Today I took them to the park and they climbed trees, gawked at dead birds, dared older boys to do adventurous tree jumping and climbed monkey bars. The oldest one climbed the top of the monkey bars and the littlest […]

This is pretty long. and to be honest, this recount is more for me than it is for whoever is reading. I want to remember every possible memory, moment, person, laugh or song that I need to keep this experience alive and real. I would be doing an injustice and disservice to the stories I […]

** note this was going to be an Instagram caption and then I realized it was too long so alas, here’s a blog post. Can I talk to my single ladies for a minute? Or even single dudes too if you care to tap into this conversation. I recently watched a video by Jamie Grace about […]

2/30 This is just the beginning, this is just the first small step forward Yes, it is absolutely terrifying   But what is even more terrifying, is not ever knowing what you were made for because you were too afraid to find out

2014 was the year I grew up. Not when I turned eighteen, nineteen, twenty, or even twenty-one. 2014 was when it happened, an entire year of growing up and growing in. Growing up and realizing that staying silent and not expressing what I wanted, was any way to live. Growing up and understanding that when […]

Do more of what scares you. Dive head first into crazy, cheapest unrealistic and illogical and let God show up. Do that Goosebumps giving, adiposity foundation shaking, approved core trembling sort of thing and watch your world turn upside down. Dare to experience something that hasn’t been outlined in pencil a thousand times over and […]

She folded her arms across me and peered around as if she were sitting in church and said, “I sit there and it think to myself, I don’t look like them. My hair is not all done, my makeup is not that flawless and I definitely don’t dress like that. I sit there and I […]

Adoni, Yahweh, Jehovah Rapha, Elohim, Father, Groom, God, Provider, Alpha, Foundation, Deliverer Who is God to you? This past Saturday, I went to the Jewish Contemporary Museum in San Francisco. When I was invited to go by a friend of mine, I automatically imagined a stereotypical historical Jewish museum where I would be traveling back […]