Thanks for Dinner, Dad
“Rats,” said one. This was greeted by a delighted chortle from the backseat, where sat the other, smiling at beating her sister this time to thank Dad for the dinner we had just enjoyed at the restaurant. The rules are: you can’t say it until we return home, the driveway counts, first to remember, wins. No […]
Sticky Fingers Don’t Leave Prints
It’s terrible having sticky fingers. No, not the kind that pull what doesn’t belong to you off the department store shelves. I’m no thief. I don’t steal stuff. I feel stuff. Everything I touch has a sense, a texture, a tone, a pinch, a puff, a cuddle, a rebuff. It’s slippery or slimy, it’s sticky […]
Letting Love Show
Using our bodies may be the most sacred of all things we do on earth. It’s the one thing we are given that is meant to be used wholly for our time here on our earth – our LIFE-time. The greatest testimony of all, beyond the life of our Lord, is our own life as […]
Sneak Attacks of Joy
You sneaky Joy You wait just ’round the corner poised to … leap just as soon as I come your way. There you are across the street as I open the door to the new day. Is that you who tickled me as I watched the children playing and the teens jostling and the white-haired […]
Writer’s Dilemma
I have a love-hate relationship with writing. I hate getting started, but I love what I find once I get there.
Just Jordan
Ok, so Jordan captured me, too! (the same Jordan Pastor Tom mentioned in his e-note). She told me she hoped I would come by her bake sale from 1-3:30pm where she would be raising money for children in Sierra Leone. Who can resist a 7 year old with a sincere smile, a passionate plea and a […]
Running Twice as Fast Will Never Get you Here
Ah fiction. It has so much truth to tell… They were running hand in hand, and the Queen went so fast that it was all Alice could do to keep up with her: and still the Queen kept crying “Faster! Faster!”… The most curious part of the thing was, that … however fast they went, […]
Scaring Away the Dark with my Glow in the Dark-ness
Not looking for monsters under my bed or skeletons in my closet. I’m looking around. Trying to make my deposit. Bring the light over here. There’s darkness all around, Being loud, Being bold, Shouting down, I can’t be told. No need to raise my voice, The darkness nearest me Is within whispering distance, It can […]
Learning to Balance May Be Life’s Most Important Lesson
This is stability to me. Learning to balance on an uneven, but forgiving surface. Teaching others to do this in a strong and capable way is one of my greatest joys. Of course, it’s not always as easy as it looks.
Gratitude isn’t a habit it’s a practice
“I was surprisingly at ease,” former President Jimmy Carter said at his press conference, recalling his emotions when his doctors told him they had found melanoma on his brain after doing surgery on his liver. “Call it clear thinking or mind over matter. Or simply: grace,” writes Sarah Kaufman in the August 21st issue of […]