# 634 in the German Mennonite songbook in the photo above is Ach Mein Herr Jesu, Wenn Ich Dich Nicht Hätte. It was my father’s favorite hymn, and we sang it often as a family. When I hear it today, seventeen years after…
I am pleased to bring you the thinking of today’s guest, Doug Bradley. He’s a Vietnam vet who, with his co-author Craig Werner, spent two years making more than 100 presentations coast to coast, witnessing honest, respectful…
My Encore Career I have some exciting news to announce! In anticipation of the upcoming release of Nothing Bad Between Us, I will be posting a new, ongoing video series in which I share insights and experiences from my personal and professional life. The…
My Dad and I Today I want to unpack the “Nothing Bad Between Us” part of my book title. In earlier posts, I’ve described the scene with my father, when we both said those words to each other in our native Low German…
Lia on Shutterstock It’s very difficult for me to look at my weaknesses, my failings, my imperfections. But I’m learning that my truest and best self may actually reside there, in the cracks. I recently learned about Kintsugi, the centuries-old Japanese art of fixing…
I have exciting news to share! My new book Love is Complicated, has a new title: Nothing Bad Between Us: A Mennonite Missionary’s Daughter Finds Healing in Her Brokenness. The new title has a special significance to me. At every goodbye…