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I’m Kelly. I love to write about my Christian faith, books, current culture, and the wonders of home.
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From the blog
Imagining for Others: Steinbeck’s East of Eden
I spent most of the last summer with the Trasks and the Hamiltons. East of Eden, John Steinbeck’s masterwork of four-hundred-plus pages had long been on my to-read list, and…
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You Can’t Do Everything: The Goodness of Our Limitations
We act surprised when we reach the end of the day and there’s still so much undone. Yet there lies the boundary line. We must rest and go about our work the next day, in a limited, human way, to the glory of God.
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Cosmo Kramer, Nine Months Along
(This was originally published ten years ago on my “mommy blog” — remember those? I thought I’d revive it in honor of the child in question’s eighteenth birthday.) Today is…
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A Word for the Redbuds Among Us
(Heads up: this essay contains major spoilers on some super old things and light spoilers on season two of Ted Lasso.) Spring has landed in Charlotte. Maybe it hasn’t happened…
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I’ve lived in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California, and finally settled down in North Carolina over a decade ago. I’ve “mostly-raised” five kids (four boys, one girl) alongside my husband. We homeschooled most of the way. I’m an amateur gardener, avid reader, decent cook, and veteran church member.
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