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All the Things We Didn’t See

By |2021-06-04T22:29:36-04:00June 4th, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|

Stepping out of my (writing) comfort zone. I will be honest, friends—I was scared to write my newest Young Adult novel, All the Things We Didn’t See. So much so that I almost didn’t. Terrified that I would say something wrong, that I would do more harm than I would be a help, I refused to write this novel for several months. Then...

A Single Story

By |2020-08-26T10:04:38-04:00August 26th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , |

We look at the color of a person’s skin, the uniform they wear, the headline blaring from a Facebook post…and we don’t look any further. We assume, we come to conclusions while only knowing a fraction of the story. How often do we presume to know everything about an issue or a person when we have only bothered to look at one side of the coin (so to speak)?

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Proximity Tends to Kill Bias

By |2020-06-29T08:06:51-04:00June 29th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

My heart hurts, friends. My heart hurts that—for some reason—we find it so hard to simply love. To relish each other’s differences and find strength and beauty in those differences instead of allowing them to divide us. Recently I had the opportunity to hear these five words spoken by Pastor Winna Bosman from South Africa...

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