If this year has taught me anything about hope, it’s that it can’t be branded, or condensed into a three sentence mission statement.

I walked down to my neighbor's house to do a front porch picture for her family today. She texted me a few days ago because her son- one...

What color shower caddy do you want?" I heard her ask from the next aisle over in Target. I should have been crossing off items on the back-to-school shopping list, but instead, I'd gotten distracted with choosing an area rug for Ella's newly made-over tween room. "I guess the gray one," I heard a younger voice reply. Two minutes later the duo turned the corner into my aisle. Their cart was already filled with all of the typical dorm-room necessities: twin sheets, plast

They wheeled her to the nursery so I could get some rest, succumbing at last to the post c-section drugs and nearly 24 hours of labor. I...