In celebration of both new school lunchboxes and fading summer days, these delicious reads are for you. *Lisa Van Engen loves a good list...

All About God’s Animals by Janyre Tromp I am a starter of projects, and I am a connector of people. The starter piece comes from the fact...

Let’s start off by saying it’s hot in the South. I know there are people who embrace sunny days and sandy toes, and I hear you, I get it,...

My parents drove my newborn sister, Sara, home from the Petoskey Hospital in the front seat of a 1977 burgundy Buick Century. This is...

It’s official. The Celebrating Gutsy: Writing and Drawing Contest for Kids is over. No more rushing to my mailbox and inbox to see what...

A couple of weeks ago, I was visiting a school when a little boy raised his hand and asked if I could pray for a girl named Emma. See,...

A year ago, I looked at my daughters’ bookshelf and noticed it resembled a TV listing. Of course we owned the classics, but our bookshelf...

When relatives ask what to buy our youngest for her birthday, my answer is often the same: tape. Scotch tape, masking tape, duct tape,...

This photo is one of my favorites. I should have been studying art, but instead, I was studying people. Their shadows created something...

If the attacks in Paris this weekend have left you feeling helpless, here’s a giant helping of hope from our twelve-year-old guest,...

Happy Monday, friends! Exciting happenings have been happening, but the most important tidbit of excitement is that sweet Sophie from...

Photos and text by Amy Young. Let’s cut right to the chase, sometimes gutsy girls grow up to be gutsy widows. When I first envisioned...

You. guys. Thank you for blowing it up on social media about GUTSY GIRLS: Strong Chritian Women Who Impacted the World. Thank you for...

Look at these two. The girl on the left is me (My husband saw this picture and asked if I ate a lot of cheese when I was young. You may...

It’s Friday, friends! Let’s talk about some fabulousness. It is almost time for the release of Gutsy Girls: Strong Christian Women Who...

Question and Answer posts thrill me. Let’s catch up, shall we? Reading: Lately, many of my writerly friends have been pubishing books....

Welcome to our summer series, Strong Girls Can. This is a series for moms and daughters where we talk about raising strong, confident,...

Sixth grade was miserable. I started a new school, which felt more like moving to a new country. Forget learning. I devoted all of my...

In the Sullivan house, our girls like to build new inventions out of string and rocks, and we like worms (at least the six-year-old...

Yesterday, my daughter and I cleaned out her closet, and I came to two conclusions. First, bins don’t always solve organizational issues...