Micha tries to write about music…

Su.Blackwel "While you were Sleeping" 2004

I don’t consider myself a “music person.” I love music and I always have. It moves me and speaks to me, though usually, it’s the lyric that lingers longest in my heart.  Though I have spent a good portion of my life dancing in my closet while simultaneously buttoning my shirt and using my toothbrush [Read More...]

Poem-a-Day Friday: Robert Lowell


Lots of changes, all of them good…

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Two and a half years ago, when I moved to San Francisco, I had a 15-month-old and I had just left the job I most loved in the world. I was lonely and anxious and I had this tiny little seed of an idea in my head. It had to do with the books I’d [Read More...]

{Practicing Benedict} Receiving Guests, Receiving Christ


Good Thankful

For a sweet birthday celebration. Look at that guy in his hat! For a backyard and dear friends and good food and all these kids running around who somehow belong to us. How did that happen? For how turning one automatically makes a baby into a little man. All the sudden Brooksie is such a [Read More...]

Trade in Hope


“What is it about the human spirit that we believe we can rise again, become more than our former self told us we could be? I believed…” Those are the first words of a documentary teaser for Trade in Hope, a story about human trafficking filmed in Austin, Texas. Yes, that’s right, a documentary about [Read More...]