MN Twins Baseball on Tuesday I have experienced a slllooow descent into the down-below world of midwifery. For many midwives and nu...

We (read: American Airlines) changed one travel day with no over-night and only two easy flights into two travel days, three hotel rooms, a...

Early in the morning we sat in a circle, our hands holding steaming-hot thick black coffee. Beth only makes it one way. The strong way. ...

"For me, downward mobility means building relationships with my brothers and sisters—whoever they are. Especially when “relationship”...

One of the small things Heartline's Maternity Program does once a woman is finished delivering her baby and has had sufficient...

Britt & Paige ~ 1994  I was touched (honored even) to be invited to share my story at Glennon Doyle Melton's blog, Momastery,  ...

There is a Mom in the program(s) at Heartline that was working as a housekeeper ~a loved son~ in the house of a man that ended up rapi...

    GO HERE to buy a shirt, Heartline gets $7 of every t-shirt purchased! (limited time fundraiser - July only) It is because peop...

As we go about our full and unpredictable daily lives, as we are alerted to injustice, as we seek to tell the truth no matter how inconveni...

PAIGE has a beautiful ABC photography/children's book for sale.   FIND IT HERE and do some other shopping at Haitian Creations whi...

Monthly contribution at A Life Overseas went up today ... An edited and up-cycled post, shared again in hopes of setting the awkward fr...

Antoinette became a friend of Heartline Ministries after the earthquake. She was on the U.S. Naval ship for an amputation due t...

~fly day~ It is November 1994 and you are being handed to me in North Memorial Hospital and I am looking at your squashed ...

"We will never become the people of hope and blessing we're meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the ...

"Wow. Long labor. Is she a G1?" "What is the dilation situation?" "Think you'll have to transport? Want ...

with cousin, Whitney - early June {By way of explanation, let it be quickly said, I have no idea what any of these children's f...