It’s been a year since I’ve written for Boundless, and more has changed in our life than I could have imagined. We’ve moved to the Big Island of Hawaii, where my husband pastors a small mission parish while I chase after my two kids and Meli Hoku, our Border Collie Lab mix puppy who has [...]

Last summer, when I was round with my second child, perpetually devouring ice cubes as Natalie somersaulted in my womb, a friend came to visit. I had heard that she’d recently had a miscarriage, but she hadn’t yet told me herself. And I was afraid — in the way that everyone seems to be — [...]

Sunday morning I woke to a fresh covering of snow. I tucked my 8-week-old baby, Natalie Joy, into a sling, wrapped a coat around us and headed into the January morning. The snow clung to the bare tree branches, blanketed the roof and blurred the lines between the grass and sidewalk. As I stood there [...]

Ever since the first day broke, men and women have squabbled about food. It started in Eden — over a single piece of fruit. In today’s supermarkets, with thousands of foods to choose from, this age-old battle of the sexes has only intensified. I married when I was 19 years old, and within 24 hours, [...]

A few years back, I developed an obsession with the Pottery Barn catalogue. I’d spend evenings with it, memorizing the spreads, fantasizing about the day I could buy one of their $2,000 cranberry sofas to replace our mismatched hand-me-downs. Some part of me believed that cash translated to cozy, that I could buy my way [...]