I heard the front door close behind him before I was even out of bed. I’d overslept. Now I’m slurping coffee and lighting candles, reading from the One Year Bible. Sizzling sausage. This is the tranquil intro. Tapping out a bass line in email responses. I can hear the rushing water of the shower upstairs [...]
On Monday I turned 37. (That’s me, second from the right, the day Mandy came home.) This is nearly impossible to fathom, because wasn’t it last week I was celebrating my 12th birthday in Kaiserslautern, Germany? Weren’t we riding the train, my aunt and grandmother and two girlfriends and I, trying on new clothes in [...]
(This was originally a “page” on my former blog…since I don’t yet have a place for it in this new blog format, I thought I’d share it again as a “post.”) I’m sure I have it documented somewhere, maybe on a piece of notebook paper, but I can’t recall it. I do know it was [...]
***Please take a minute to visit Tara & Troy Livesay and be invigorated by their marvelous, marvelous work in Haiti. I promise you will be SO glad you did! ———————————————————————————————————————– So here I am. My soul knows there is something golden even in the face of so much sadness, but my hands have to sift through the [...]
It's true. I've come to love January. Some people get it, others are feeling a letdown after the Christmas holiday highs. And I admit that I came to love January after moving south where the sun makes frequent appearances in the dead of winter (although this year is turning out to be much colder than [...]
