Robert and I are somewhere in southeast Texas right now, a middle-of-nowhere sort of place equidistant from Austin, San Antonio, and Houston. It’s really beautiful here. Not the majestic-fall-foliage beauty of New England that we’ve grown so accustomed to, but the back-road, brushy, barbed-wire beauty that is still very familiar to us. We walked a… Read More The Gift of Home
Seventeen years ago today, I was doing the breakfast dishes and watching the Today Show on our small kitchen television when they started to show footage of the World Trade Center on fire. An airplane was reported to have hit one of the towers causing the fire. Kory, who was 6 at the time, came running through… Read More Remembering the Day: Beauty for Ashes
The archivist in me wants to get it all down here and not let any more time pass, so I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Rhode Island trying to finish the story before we start our annual week of youth camp. I should be working on the Bible study I will be leading all… Read More Far More Abundantly – Part 2: Delight
And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt. Luke 18:9 The italics are mine, and I am “some people.” self-righteous: convinced of one’s own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others : narrow-mindedly moralistic. contempt: the feeling… Read More Some People
Here’s a better view of those Topo Chico bottles-turned-drinking-glasses. Aren’t they great? What a cool gift. I just love seeing them in my cabinet. I love that the “cut” is just above the textured part of the bottle giving them a bit of a decorative flair. And that green tint? Perfect. While I was uploading… Read More Birthday Gifts: Part 2
“What do you want to do for your birthday, Mom?” With Robert typically gone to Texas and Oklahoma for the first two weeks of January, my kids are usually left with the burden responsibility of “making mom’s birthday special” on their own. I kind of hate that. I love special days and gifts, but I… Read More Birthday Gifts: Part 1
It’s a new season of family life around here. I realized that again over the holidays when I was trying to create our annual Christmas card and discovered I had not even ONE photo of our whole family together from the previous year. So, taking family photos was a top priority for the four weeks… Read More Said Goodbye Again, But Not Without A Pic This Time
This morning had me up early and in the shower for two purposes: getting myself clean and scrubbing the tile. I learned this whole clean-the-shower-while-you-are-in-the-shower trick from my friend Tamyra in Oklahoma. Always multi-tasking. Always. And the reason I want a super-clean bathroom is because in just a few short hours my littlest nephew will… Read More Baked Some Cookies, Had A Party, Read a Story, Made Some Gifts…
(A re-posting from 2011 to remember a man who loved his country and me.) Spring always reminds me of my grandfather. His birthday was on the first day of spring, and even though he’s been gone nearly 11 years now, I still write his name on March 20 every January when I sit down to… Read More Memorial Day ~ Remembering My Poppy
A much anticipated and worked-for weekend finally arrived last Friday. A year ago, my sweet friend, Karla, invited me to join her in participating in Beth Moore’s Scripture Memory Challenge. The goal was to hide the Word in our hearts by memorizing 24 Bible verses over the course of the year. The accountability was having… Read More W.A.L.K.I.N.G. with Beth