by Mary Carver | Sep 26, 2017 | Faith Life, Giving Up on Perfect
“I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How have you been?”Last weekend I went to my 20th high school reunion. It was an event that I’d built up to be A THING in my head, one I was both nervous about and looking forward to. It turned out to...
by Mary Carver | Sep 19, 2017 | Faith Life, Giving Up on Perfect
Yesterday I told a friend that I felt like I was running the 50-yard-dash in the Mom Olympics. I joked that I could almost hear the starting pistol the moment I left my house. In the span of just a couple hours I went to my daughter’s school to fill out a form...
by Mary Carver | Sep 11, 2017 | Giving Up on Perfect
After gently pushing my preschooler away from me and toward her teacher, I walked fast down the hallway until I found it: a nook with a soft, leather couch. It was our first Wednesday night at a new (to us) church — and also the day after she’d cried so...
by Mary Carver | Sep 8, 2017 | Books, Movies & TV, Giving Up on Perfect
What’s that saying? There’s nothing new under the sun? It certainly seems that way lately, what with every other movie in the theater rebooting a show from decades ago or featuring a superhero or seven. And the TV lineup is no different. Nostalgia is the...
by Mary Carver | Jul 25, 2017 | Finding Truth in Unexpected Places, Giving Up on Perfect
Current carry you, the folk of the riverlands say. It is many things. A greeting. A benediction. An acknowledgement that the river continues to flow around us, no matter what happens. To me, tonight, it felt like a warning. Song of the Current Sarah Tolcser...
by Mary Carver | May 3, 2017 | Books, Movies & TV, Giving Up on Perfect
Thousands of words have been written since the release of the Gilmore Girls revival the Friday after Thanksgiving. Maybe millions. I mean, based on the dozens of posts, text messages, comments, and vox messages I had to avoid until I had watched all four episodes,...