by Space Welch | Apr 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
I don’t pretend to know everything about depression. I would tick a lot of folks off and be incredibly insensitive if I pretended to. I’ve never taken drugs for it. I’ve hardly struggled with it for the past decade. And my experiences with it...
by Space Welch | Apr 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
After my last post, I’d really like to give some serious credit to single mamas (and also single dads). It’s a very real tragedy, in our society, that there are so many single parents out there. Those folks have it hard. Their kids have it hard. In an...
by Space Welch | Apr 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
When folks ask me what I do for work, I always tell them in the same sequence… “I’m a stay at home mom”… (pause and observe facial expression)… “And I’m a soap-maker.” And I always seem to get the same response....
by Space Welch | Mar 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
I don’t know how I missed it before… and somehow I feel like most of us have missed it. I’ve heard the story a million times, it seems, and somehow we all seem to miss the significance of the pure nard. Mary enters the room, carrying a vial of...
by Space Welch | Mar 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
We have this extra kid that hangs out with us regularly. We sometimes refer to him as our 4th child. Not that he’s been technically adopted, but we just love him a lot. We would technically adopt him if he needed it and we could manifest the kind of money you...
by Space Welch | Mar 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
I was recently pondering 2 types of parenting, and the worldview that our kids usually adopt as a result of them. (There’s a whole different kind of warped idea that kids get from absent or negligent parents. I’m not dissecting that one right now, but I...