About Me

I am dearly loved (and so are you!) by The One Who Is Love.

Receiving the unearned, lavish love of God grounds me in a sense of wellbeing like nothing else. Belonging to Someone who understands and accepts and delights in me has filled my heart with a joy that sustains me in all kinds of circumstances and energizes an overflow of love for others.

That is honestly all you really need to know about me, but for those of you who want more, I’ll add that I love playing pickleball and creating pottery. I find neuroscience utterly fascinating. I read and read, especially historical fiction.

My husband remains one of my very best friends forty years into marriage, and we both enjoy our three adult children and their partners. We’re also pretty wild about our six grandchildren and the one on the way!

I volunteer with Braver Angels, a grassroots organization that brings conservatives and progressives together on equal terms to understand our differences, find common ground where it exists, and stop treating each other as enemies. I also work to reduce my use of plastic and to raise awareness that we need to sharply reduce production of the single-use plastic in which our world is drowning.

My weaknesses? I’m spatially challenged and can’t read maps unless I turn them to match the direction my car is going. I’ve struggled with anxiety disorders and major depression. I am still mastering the art of living well as a highly sensitive person, learning not to take on too many commitments and become overwhelmed and exhausted.

What else? I love dark chocolate, trumpet concertos, learning, ginger beer, the graceful lines of figure skating, sunshine, movies that focus on relationships, jazz saxophone, color, other cultures and cuisines, and going barefoot whenever possible.

My logo

I am drawn to Celtic knots, which have no beginning or end and symbolize God’s unending love. The Celtic knot I chose for my logo is called the Dara knot and is said to represent the root system of an oak tree.

Tree roots symbolize, for me, an extensive foundation in The One Who Is Love. An oak tree is a symbol of strength, and inner strength is one of my deep desires for myself and others. Inner strength is often a gift that comes to those who walk with God in an intentional and contemplative way.

I see the complexity of the Dara knot as a symbol of the twists and turns and ups and downs of our life journeys. And at the knot’s center there is a cross, a symbol of The Way of Suffering Love that lies at the center of belonging to and following Christ and that has the power to heal our world.