The Good Logger

"Can I see it? The urn?" Imagining some ornate decoration, I barely recognize the box, an unassuming cloth-covered cube. It's...

"Bronze," he says. "That's the gift for 19 years." Considering I have no gift planned because life feels a little like a spin-out on a...

In high school I became a certified diver. Funny story, I still am a certified diver. I wouldn't honestly do that without a refresher...

Sharper than a two-edged sword, divider of sinew and flesh. Divider of true and false. Your word gives me comfort when the world creates...

By Karina Tinsley Laying in the grass Turn my head Did I see it before? Was it always there? Did I never notice? How different it all...

"I'm so much bigger than I used to be," Tree, sobbing, said to itself. "No one will be able to recognize me this summer, and my Christmas...

The Dutch House By Ann Patchett Hardcover, First Edition, Deckle Edge, 337 pages Published September 24th 2019 by Harper A good friend of...

The body’s signals start small; something is about to happen, something big. A pain in the back coming and going, a tightness in the...

The tricky thing is, as soon as one exhales, one must again inhale. This time though, I won't be holding my breath. God is still good. He...

May the 4th bring peace. After grief, after loss, after heartache. May there be peace. Where there once was division, may there be unity....

"Have you been writing?" Oh, I wish. It turns out reentering the real world after the past year takes the creative energy away almost as...

With every little bit, I exhale. Not realizing I've held my breath for so long, the relief is foreign. What is this strange feeling? And...

Every year it's a similar challenge: Christmas gifts for the family. What do you get for the parents who seem to have everything? Also, I...

This was originally posted on Good Friday 2018, and it's become one of my favorite pieces. Every year it changes a little bit though, as...

Twenty years of birthdays and Christmases, Labor Day Weekends and New Year's Eves. Twenty years of bedtimes, nap times, and dinnertimes....

Film is one of the best places to engage a story. During this pandemic year, stories on screens have been one of the only places I have...

Since her encounter with Jesus on her own “road to Damascus,” Leanne has shut down her business of energy healing and channeling, and...

"Everything here is my life!" With anxiety they put their masks on as we park. "I don't want to go in," says the 11-year-old. "That's...

“He was saved two weeks ago,” Leanne says of her husband, holding it closely the entire time we’ve been talking. She met Kevin at her job...

“I’m just a little baby Christian, I don’t know how much I have to share,” Leanne confesses in our interview via Zoom in November. No...