Some Sound Advice on Approaching Strangers During my high school years my sister and I worked together at Panera bread. One Halloween my boss somehow convinced us to go out reverse trick or treating as a means of advertising. Dressed up in our Panera aprons and hats, we set out with bags of fresh bagels […]

  The Things We Do For Love The summer before we married, Grayson spent a couple of months working for a road construction crew in Oklahoma. It was a desperate yet romantic act on his part to save for an engagement ring. At the same time, I was working my only ever corporate job, traveling […]

The Way My Family Eats   Normally I just think of my family’s diet as a way of eating, instead of a specific set of rules or guidelines. And so when I refer to my family’s “diet”, I’m not referring to a fad, or anything temporary; rather I’m referring to the way we’ve chosen to […]

Into The Whole Food Kitchen Of The Olson Family This week we’ve been stepping into the kitchen of the Olson family. Be sure to read part 1 and part 2 of their story first, and learn how they are battling Crohn’s disease through eating whole foods! On Wednesday we learned a little bit about the […]

Into The Whole Food Kitchen Of The Olson Family On Monday we stepped into the home of the Olson family and met Scott, Brittany, and their two young children. Brittany was diagnosed 5 years ago with Crohn’s disease. Be sure to read part 1 of their story to learn how this diagnosis was made, what […]

A Friendship Is Born When I began hosting a women’s Bible study in my home a year and a half ago, my friend Jessie mentioned she had a good friend from her church, a young mom, who may want to join our group. That very next week I was out walking Ezekiel and our Labrador. […]