by Jessica Bolyard | Aug 14, 2013 | Faith, Family
To my husband, on our anniversary: Is there any way that I can write what I want to say to you? I’m going to try, because that’s just what I do, but before I do I want to tell you a story. It’s a story in progress, right now, right here, in Panera as...
by Jessica Bolyard | Aug 14, 2013 | Faith
I was eleven when I landed my first gig. My piano teacher, a giant among piano teachers in our town, had somehow secured a slot for several of his advanced students to play at an international arts and music festival downtown. It didn’t seem to matter that I...
by Jessica Bolyard | Aug 11, 2013 | Faith
We’re in a series at my (awesome) church right now called “The Big Picture,” and we’re exploring the idea of God’s will for our lives. We’ve been saying how so often we act like God’s will is something far out there for us to...
by Jessica Bolyard | Aug 9, 2013 | Faith, Fellowship
Every so often, I link up with Lisa-Jo Baker’s Five Minute Friday, a community of writers who get together and write for five minutes and five minutes ONLY on the prompt for the week. No editing…no planning…no corrections. Just love for the written...
by Jessica Bolyard | Aug 7, 2013 | Faith, Family, Fellowship
When I was in kindergarten, we lived just a few blocks from the school. Every morning, after filling my little belly with rolled eggs (the rest of the world calls them omelets) and taming my thick hair into a top-knot ponytail, my mom would load my sister and me...
