A winter storm hit my family this week—while I got cold rain. I’m grateful that God provides water for the land in his own ways, but I wish mine had been snow! I’ve lived in the South for almost seven years now, and the itch to shovel a driveway rears its head from time to […]

This week the ALA Youth Media Awards were announced, about-to-change-careers musician Thad Cockrell got featured on The Tonight Show, and I finally cleared the cat toys from under the couch. These things have nothing in common, but they are forever tied together by the vagaries of history. So there’s some existential philosophy to start your day. Around […]

Y’all. I’ve made it to the fourth week of the year without forgetting about preparing The Warren & the World for you. I’m gonna take that as a win (you gotta take them when you have them). We are so busy, and life is so full, and it’s easy to forget even the things that […]

Even with all my digital reminder options, I still have a tendency to jot a note on a piece of paper and set it in front of me until I do what I need to do with it. My current pieces of paper are orange and square. They’re from this fancy multi-colored spiraling note paper […]

It’s been a rough week. You’re probably as weary as I am and you’re still fielding questions (from your kids, your family, your neighbors, that random friend from high school you still interact with on social media) that you can’t answer. It’s ok not to have answers. We’ve got snow in the forecast, and one […]