by Mary Carver | Oct 4, 2013 | Faith Life
I used to fall asleep by imagining my next class reunion. I missed my five-year and it seemed logical to me that I would have achieved greatness – and a single-digit jeans size – by age 28. So I’d close my eyes and dream up a scenario straight out of...
by Mary Carver | Oct 3, 2013 | Faith Life
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. ~ Anna Quindlen I don’t remember wanting to be a princess. It was fun to play with my friend’s dollhouse or Barbie dolls, but I...
by Mary Carver | Oct 2, 2013 | Faith Life
You know how, sometimes, when you’re talking with a friend for a long time, you can end up talking about something so random, so unrelated to your original topic that you can’t help but say, “How on earth did we get HERE?” I love trying to...
by Mary Carver | Oct 2, 2013 | Faith Life, My Life
When I was in middle school, I had a diary. It had a lock on it and everything. I can’t tell you exactly what’s in it, because it was a victim of this summer’s Decluttering-a-palooza. (In other words, it’s hidden away in my cedar chest, which...
by Mary Carver | Oct 1, 2013 | Faith Life, My Life
You wanna know something funny? As I sat here, fiddling with my feed trying to figure out how to give my subscribers a link to my new ebook, I watched the season premiere of Once Upon a Time. Don’t tell Emma, Mary Margaret and Charming that I’m giving up...
