Undivided My oldest child started preschool this fall. It was the first time I dropped him off somewhere consistently to play with other kids. It is also the first time I am getting a chunk of alone time consistently with my youngest. On the first day, Miles and I went to a playground to play […]
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Celebrating Girls! Day of the Girl is coming on October 11! I will be doing a webinar via Facebook Live at 7pm CST. I’m so excited for this interactive conversation about the power of girls. Whether you’ve read Play Like a Girl and want to know more or you don’t know anything about KGSA and want […]
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Play Like a Girl turns 1 year old today. It has been an incredible year. I’ve been reflecting on the researching and writing stages of Play Like a Girl a lot lately. My time in Kibera listening to the KGSA ladies tell their stories remains one of the biggest honors of my professional life. I […]
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I once heard Krista Tippet being interviewed instead of doing the interviewing. She spoke about asking people not the question she wanted to ask, but the question she thought her guest would want to answer. That shift is deeply important. That is exactly what Meta Carlson did when she sat Kirstin Burch and I down […]
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Anyone else need some good news these days? City Stay and Like a Girl are two places giving me hope. Youth are leading the way to peace: While the news cycle was saturated with separating families at the border, the Muslim ban and shifts on the Supreme Court, four high schoolers quietly did the work […]
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A few things I love so much I want to share: Abby Wambach’s Barnard graduation speech. Fail up. Lead from the bench. Champion each other. Demand the ball. You are not Little Red Riding Hood. You are the wolf. And speaking of wolves, The Wolves at The Jungle Theater: fierce female soccer players and a […]
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KGSA Foundation and I are doing a campaign to get a copy of Play Like a Girl to every girls’ soccer team at the 2018 Schwan’s Cup in Blaine this July in hopes of connecting amazing girls here with amazing girls in Kibera. We can get books for $10 a copy, so a small donation to the […]
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Heidi Barr and I are a few months into an adventure called 12 Tiny Things. We are taking one aspect of life and reflecting on it for a month in order to deepen and nurture our roots. Join us on Facebook and our website. This post came out of my month focusing on Spirituality. The […]
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Heidi Barr and I are two months into an adventure called 12 Tiny Things. We are taking one aspect of life and reflecting on it for a month in order to deepen and nurture our roots. Join us on Facebook and our website. Here are some brief notes from my month focusing on WORK: 1. My […]
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This morning the task was to discuss the story of Judas betraying Jesus with two separate groups of high school students. We read John’s version, where the soldiers, police and Pharisees went after Jesus with lanterns, torches and weapons. Later, Simon Peter took out a sword and, before Jesus could tell him to put it […]
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