When someone with ALS dies, My world stops for a minute, or an hour or a week. It all depends on a million spinning, invisible factors. Today’s news has me reeling. If this were a movie, I think I would be the person stumbling through a dark […]
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Playing a Weighty Hand
This weekend, I had the great privilege of meeting three new friends. Side note: it doesn’t matter how hard I try, I will never spell privelige privelidge privilege right the first time. Argh. Anyway, I met three lovely ladies – one through my blog and two in person – and […]
Read MoreFor those who grieve at Christmas
Have you ever not been happy at Christmas time? I love this holiday, but I will say: it’s nothing like any of the others. In all my 46 years, I’ve never had to work so hard to keep His coming framed in my view while staying out of the muck […]
Read MoreDear Baby: Live for Something Big
Dear Grandbaby, Life is tricky business. We spend a lot of time – the bulk of our time, really – building a safe, successful world for ourselves. We work to get an education and a job and promotions and relationships and a car and a home and a boat and […]
Read More15 Things I Learned on Day 4
1. The mooing of many cows is more charming upon arrival at a campground then it is at midnight or 2:00 or 3:00 or 4:00 or 5:00 or even 6:00 in the morning. Turns out, a bevy of bovines was hidden away in the corn and the wheat behind […]
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