About

So this is me.

The one in the middle beside the middle-aged balding guy.

Of course I couldn’t find a picture of me alone and the more I looked, the more fitting this one became. I’m Kristine. Mother. Wife. Canadian. Amish/Mennonite. Curly girl. Green card holder.

I’ve lived in Iowa since 1992. That’s 28 years. I left home to set out on my first big adventure when I was 17 and I haven’t lived there since. I will never pledge allegiance to Iowa and Canada will never lose first place in my heart. It can’t. It’s the home of too many gravestones that explain me and why I’m here.

I like to write. I long for home. I love stories that linger and change things up. I crave more. More life. More adventure. More romance, and yet my life has turned into something very ordinary looking. Is that the biggest adventure of all?

This is where I am. This is who I am and every bit of it is grace. Every step to here, to today, is God-maintained. Some days feel like a sweet whisper, a soft breeze with blue skies, and other days feel like thunderstorms complete with hurricane winds and churning black skies.

It’s all grace. I believe it.

My hope with this place is to tell you pieces of my story. I hope to tell a good story that people want to hold close, breath deeply of, and cling to, as they figure out their own adventure. I believe we need to make our way to stillness and quiet moments where our true selves can more easily be found.

I’m happy you stopped by. Look around. See if anything looks familiar. Be encouraged. Be kind. Keep on going.

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