The goal of disciplined piano practice is not to master the piano.

In our roughly 12x12 family office (with about 6.5-foot ceilings, I might add), I embarrassingly have 39 items with a San Francisco 49ers logo on them. 

There are so many things wrong with this. Not with the fact, but with the title. 

A therapist once pointedly suggested that I was experiencing shame. I promptly suggested she was wrong.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was, without a doubt, a great leader.

But he was a great follower first.

Right now the Internet is full of predictions, invitations to new year’s resolutions, and promises about what 2017 could be with the right [insert latest product/diet/happy thought here].

If I, a woman, were to write the gospel of the entry of God into the world as one of us, I’m pretty sure I would not start with his human genealogy, as Matthew does.