Blog
This is where the thoughts land.
Some posts are personal—stories about motherhood, marriage, and the quiet ache of becoming. Others explore my Catholic faith, books I’m reading, the beauty tucked into ordinary days, and the popcorn moments that remind me I’m still alive inside it all.
I write from the middle of things. Not with answers, but with honesty.
If you’re looking for reflections that are gentle, soulful, and sometimes unexpected—you’re in the right place.
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Outside of the Room
I used to feel like I was just outside of the room. It’s hard to explain, but I carried this feeling that I wanted a seat at the table of thinkers but could never quite get invited in. I wanted to be part of the conversation. Not simply to talk, but to listen. To hear…
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Suffocating Faith
For clarity it is not because I dislike church, doctrine, Scripture, commitment, or even authority. In fact, I’ve spent most of my life deeply invested in all of those things. The suffocating part wasn’t Christianity itself. It wasn’t Jesus. It wasn’t the Bible. It wasn’t even the Church, at least not entirely. The suffocating part…
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The Runway Appears
In her novel Gilead, Marilynne Robinson captures a frustration that every writer, thinker, and creator knows down to their bones. John Ames reflects on his own sermons and letters, noting: “I often think about those words and how they fall so short of what I intended them to say.” I feel that weight every single…
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That Way Is Still the Best Way
One of the byproducts of converting to Catholicism is over-questioning my past understanding of life and purpose. Of course, I comb through doctrines and practices, but I also have looked back at my past pursuits and my heart breaks. Now at 47, I feel a sense of regret, wishing that I had felt this freedom…
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What Tiny Houses and My Conversion Story Have in Common
Lately, I’ve been watching tiny house videos on YouTube. I see single people, young couples, full families of four or five, and retirees. On paper, it looks like a lesson in restriction squeezing your entire existence into three or four hundred square feet. But when you listen to their testimonials after three, five, or six…
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Unglamorous and Unremarkable
As a Catholic convert, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this question: What does it look like to be a follower of Christ? For some people, the answer might include attending Mass, praying the Rosary, going to Confession, or reading Scripture. Those things certainly matter and have become important parts of my life.…
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A Strange Book to Love: Why Do I Keep Buying Wuthering Heights?
The other day I purchased a cute copy of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights from a bookstore in Fort Lauderdale. It’s a short, plump little book with flowers on the cover and burgundy binding with gold lettering. As soon as I saw it, I pictured it sitting on my nightstand. I imagined myself grabbing it from time to…
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The Problem with Isolation is that it slowly turns striving into straining.
I talk about being an introvert often. And I am. What I am not is isolated. I think the two things can get confused. People assume introverts want to be left alone. While many of us need quiet and solitude to recharge, that isn’t the same thing as disconnection. Human beings were created for relationship.…
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Following Christ
Praying when nobody sees. #TheRealMartina What does it mean to pray in secret? I’m just going to be honest. It is hard not to make my devotional habits public. To hashtag them. To selfie them. To Snapchat them. It’s hard not to make my Christianity look presentable. But praying in secret, whether I hit that…
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Becoming, Purpose, and Passing Down Our Faith
As a Catholic convert, I find myself thinking a lot about charity. Not charity in the sense of dropping a few dollars into a bucket, though that certainly has its place. I mean charity as a way of living. A posture of the heart. The Scriptures put it something like this: freely you have received;…
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Is Heaven Empty?
The other day I shared why the Solemnity of Corpus Christi means so much to me. In that post I talked about how there are so many teachings in Christianity. There are groups of Christians who think drinking is wrong. Another group may not have a problem with drinking, but Harry Potter and My Little…
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Corpus Christi is Not About a Doctrine. It’s About a Person.
Believe it or not, I don’t always like talking about my conversion to Catholicism. Sometimes I wonder if what I experienced before was simply my own misunderstanding of the Gospel. Plenty of faithful Christians walk in tremendous freedom. Because of that, there are times I feel the urge to button my lips and keep all…