How Do You Begin the End?

This is my final post. It’s been a year or so since I took a break from the Interwebs–away from writing online, from traveling and speaking, from Tweeting and Facebooking and Snapchatting and the like. … Read More

May It Be Light and Only Light

It has been three months since I said farewell to social media, sans a quick break to introduce our daughter to you. Those three months-they have been enough. They have been enough to show me … Read More

Let Your No Be Your Yes

Just because you may hear “no” a million times doesn’t mean that the biggest YES–the calling for you to change the world in whatever you way you are meant to change it–diminishes. The “no” is … Read More

To All The Mothers Who Will Never Hold Their Babies on Mother’s Day

I never realized how weird Mother’s Day is when you’ve lost a child; I always heard it, but I didn’t understand. Now, in a poppy-seed-sized way, I do. So, if you are missing your own child, regardless of how or when he or she departed, know you are not alone, and I wish you the happiest of Mother’s Day. Nothing will ever change the fact that you are a mother.

Look What God Did

Dear 25 year old Anne, It’s me. Anne. Today you…me…we…? turn 35. Holy Moses, has it been a decade? I wanted to tell you four words: “Look what God did.” 25 year old Anne, 2005 was … Read More

Grace in the Mundane

When you feel longing creep in as you pull your feet through the mud of the daily, command your spirit to rejoice. If the rocks cry out, imagine the will it takes to get a … Read More