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Laura Diaz Freeland is an author, blogger, and seasoned copywriter.and Her debut book, Lindy the Penguin, sold 5 copies in 1991—4 of which were purchased by her parents—but she stuck with it and made her writing dreams come true. Her memoir Not What I Had in Mind: A Motherhood Origin Story, chronicles her twins’ births and the fight for their lives. It will be published November 2023.
By Laura Freeland @ohhilaurahere Spring comes to Florida first, and if the rising temperature and wave of humidity sends you running for air conditioned shelter, you'll miss the bougainvillea, and the butterflies, and the last bit of crisp morning air. My three-year-old daughters and I
November is Prematurity Awareness Month. Since 2003, the leading prematurity awareness organization has raised funds and worked to protect moms and babies against preventable preterm births-but what about the unpreventable preterm births? What about me? On December 15, 2019, my daughter arrived 17 weeks and two days early.
It feels impossible to express the joy the children of Ethiopia gifted me. It feels impossible to express the courage and strength of the women I now call sisters. It feels impossible to tell the story of how I flew across the world with 11 strangers and flew back with the only 11 people who ...
Of course Jesus was a storyteller. He is the one who created us for story. He knew we would need stories to pass down his wisdom from generation to generation. He knew we would need stories to build depth of relationship in community. He knew we would need stories to make sense of this broken world.
Last June, I walked into Cathy Drake's Thornton Park home-full of strangers-for a Connect group meeting. I didn't go because I wanted to make new friends or because I wanted to get plugged into Summit. I went because I thought I should go.
I spend my Sunday nights hanging out with high school girls at Edge-loving them through the challenges of maturing into incredible, God-fearing women. I wouldn't have necessarily skipped out on that to attend a talk on refugees, but since we decided to take all of the Edge students to In Justice on Sunday, I didn't think anything of it.