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Hi, I’m Steph – just trying to balance writing and tiny house living with two toddlers. Wondering how Anne Bradstreet managed to be a poet with 8 kids and no washing machine.

I write about making more space for beauty & justice to meet. I wonder about simplicity, social justice, creativity, & motherhood. And sometimes you get a poem.

Hey friends! It has been a busy month, but I'm excited to share with you this interview with Joy Marie Clarkson @joynessthebrave over in my Substack. We talk about her book Aggressively Happy, what it was like writing a book about happiness that ended up being about sadness (but also, ultimately happiness), authors who bring her hope and beauty even in a world of injustice, and a sneak peak at the topic of her NEW book coming out as well. Autumn Pentecost : I'm excited to finally share that my co-author, Dr. Kathryn Pillay and I have signed with Pan Macmillan South Africa, and after a year of collaboration, research, and testing the manuscript out on our friend's kids 😄, this publisher is going to share our story with the world. We can't say too much now, except that they are in the process of finding an illustrator who will bring this powerful story from history to life! Mother's day. We Just want to be SEEN right? My child has SEEN ME. 😄 Two aspects of our American culinary heritage that you can't buy in 🇿🇦 South Africa, and so we make from scratch at home... tortillas and cinnamon rolls. AND THEY MADE IT TO THE MOTHERS DAY CARD. (Swipe!) 🇿🇦 South African friends, please head over to the @minimootsouthafrica page & spread the word far & wide that our little moot is open for submissions! I had a birthday. If the AI wrote my instagram caption, it would be “Wow! Another year around the sun, it’s been crazy, but I’m so grateful for everything I’ve learned this year! Here’s to new growth and new #adventures!” Or some other such vague phrase which can go with a vague selfie and meets the need of an evangelical women audience (be nice and cheerful! Things can be hard, but never too bad!)l, while also hinting at the millennial need to be somewhat “authentic” (which means, everything can’t be TOO cheerful, that’s some weird denial crap from our parents, lean in to the suckiness! Share! Share!). What a treat to go to Art in the Park and soak up the autumn leaves & live music & artwork. I also loved that this year the artists were much more representative of our city's many languages & cultures! 😍 #Eastertide We are not in the hospital! And the bright autumn sun is shining. Some of us like the inward brooding of Lent, but can I say I AM AN EASTER GIRL ALL THE WAY.
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About Me

Hi, Steph again. It’s my site after all. What else do you want to know? I’m an enneagram 7 (social subtype for you nerds). I love having text conversations with my husband exchanging articles when we should be working. I studied English Lit and Sociology, and married my American college boyfriend. We were the generation of Shane Claiborne, that “Radical” book by David Platt, and not wanting to sell-out to the corporate Christian megachurch machine.

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